For a Place to keep Rabbits in, build a Wall <lb/>
of &longs;quare Stone, with its Foundations dug &longs;o <lb/>
low as to be in Water; within the Space en<lb/>
clo&longs;ed make a Floor of male Sand, with little <lb/>
Hillocks here and there of Fuller's Earth. </s> <s>Let <lb/>
your Poultry have a Shed in the Yard facing <lb/>
the South, and thick &longs;trewed with A&longs;hes, and <lb/>
over this Places for them to lay their Eggs, <lb/>
and Perches to roo&longs;t upon in the Night. </s> <s>Some <lb/>
are for keeping their Poultry in large Coops in <lb/>
&longs;ome hand&longs;ome inclofed Area facing the Ea&longs;t; <lb/>
but tho&longs;e that are defigned for laying and <lb/>
hatching of Eggs, as they are more cheerful, <lb/>
having their Liberty, &longs;o too they are more <lb/>
fruitful; whereas, tho&longs;e which are kept in a <lb/>
dark confined Place, &longs;eldom bring their Eggs <lb/>
to any Thing. </s> <s>Place your Dove-hou&longs;e &longs;o as <lb/>
to be in View of Water, and do not make it <lb/>
too lofty, but of &longs;uch an ea&longs;y Heigth, that the <lb/>
Pidgeons wearied with flying, or after &longs;porting <lb/>
about in the Air with one another, may gent<lb/>
ly glide down upon it with Ea&longs;e and Plea&longs;ure. <lb/>
</s> <s>Some there are who &longs;ay that when the Pidgeon <lb/>
has found her Meat in the Field, the farther &longs;he <lb/>
has it to carry to her Young, the Fatter &longs;he <lb/>
makes them with it; and the Rea&longs;on they give <lb/>
is, becau&longs;e the Meat which they carry Home <lb/>
to feed their Young in their Crop, by &longs;taying <lb/>
there a good While is half concocted; and up<lb/>
on this Account, they are for placing the Dove<lb/>
hou&longs;e on &longs;ome very high &longs;teep Situation. </s> <s>They <lb/>
think too, that it is be&longs;t for the Dove-hou&longs;e to <lb/>
be at a pretty good Di&longs;tance from its Water, <lb/>
that the Pidgeons may not chill their Eggs by <lb/>
coming to them with their Feet wet. </s> <s>If in <lb/>
one Corner of the Tower you enclo&longs;e a Ka&longs;trel, <lb/>
it will &longs;ecure your Dove-hou&longs;e from Birds of <lb/>
Prey. </s> <s>If under the Door you bury the Head <lb/>
of a Wolf &longs;trewed over with Cummin-&longs;eed, in <lb/>
an earthen Ve&longs;&longs;el full of Holes for the Smell to <lb/>
get out, it will bring you an infinite Number <lb/>
of Pidgeons. </s> <s>If you make your Dove-hou&longs;e <lb/>
Floor of Chalk, and wet it thoroughly with <lb/>
Man's Urine, you will bring Multitudes of <lb/>
Pidgeons from the Seats of their Ance&longs;tors, to <lb/>
take up their Abode with you. </s> <s>Before the <lb/>
Windows let there be Cornices of Stone, or of <lb/>
Olive-wood, projecting out a Cubit, for the <lb/>
Pidgeons to light upon at their coming Home, <lb/>
and to take their Flight from at their going <lb/>
Abroad. </s> <s>If the Young ones which are con<lb/>
fined have a View of Trees and the Sky before <lb/>
they can fly, it will make them Droop and <lb/>
Pine away. </s> <s>Other &longs;maller Birds which you <lb/>
have a De&longs;ire to breed, ought to have their <lb/>
Ne&longs;ts and Apartments made for them in &longs;ome <lb/>
warm Place. </s> <s>Tho&longs;e which walk more than <lb/>
they fly, &longs;hould have them low, and upon the <lb/>
Ground it&longs;elf; for others they &longs;hould be made <lb/>
higher. </s> <s>Each &longs;hould have a &longs;eparate Apart<lb/>
ment, divided by Partitions on each Side to <lb/>
keep their Eggs or Young from falling out of <lb/>
the Ne&longs;t. </s> <s>Clay is better to make the Ne&longs;ts of <lb/>
than Lime, and Lime than Terra&longs;s. </s> <s>All Sort <lb/>
of old Stone new cut is bad; Bricks are better <lb/>
than Turf, if not too much baked. </s> <s>The Wood <lb/>
either of Poplar or Fir is very u&longs;eful. </s> <s>All the <lb/>
Apartments for Birds ought to be &longs;mooth, clean <lb/>
and &longs;weet, and e&longs;pecially &longs;or Pidgeons. </s> <s>Even <lb/>
four footed Bea&longs;ts, if kept na&longs;ty, will grow <lb/>
Scabby. </s> <s>Let every Part, therefore, be well <lb/>
done over with Rough-ca&longs;t, and plai&longs;tered and <lb/>
white wa&longs;hed, not leaving the lea&longs;t Cranny un<lb/>
&longs;topped, that Pole-cats, Weezels, Newts, or the <lb/>
like Vermin may not de&longs;troy the Eggs, or the <lb/>
Young, or prejudice the Wall; and be &longs;ure to <lb/>
make convenient Places to keep their Meat and <lb/>
Water in. </s> <s>It will be very Convenient for this <lb/>
Purpo&longs;e to have a Moat quite round your Hou&longs;e, <lb/>
wherein your Gee&longs;e, Ducks, Hogs and Cows <lb/>
may water and wa&longs;h them&longs;elves, and near <lb/>
which, in all Weathers, they may have as much <lb/>
Meat lying ready for them as they will eat. <lb/>
</s> <s>Let the Water and Meat for your &longs;maller <lb/>
Fowls be kept in Tunnels along the Wall, &longs;o <lb/>
that they may not &longs;eatter or dirty it with their <lb/>
Feet; and you may have Pipes into the&longs;e Tun<lb/>
nels from without, through which you may <lb/>
convey their Food into them. </s> <s>In the Middle, <lb/>
let there be a Place for them to wa&longs;h in, with <lb/>
a con&longs;tant &longs;upply of clean Water. </s> <s>Make your <lb/>
Pi&longs;h-pond in a chalky Soil, and dig it &longs;o deep <lb/>
that the Water may neither be over heated by <lb/>
the Rays of the Sun, nor too ea&longs;ily frozen up <lb/>
by the Cold. </s> <s>Moreover, make &longs;ome Caverns <lb/>
in the Sides, for the Fi&longs;h to run into upon any <lb/>
&longs;udden Di&longs;turbance of the Water, that they <lb/>
may not be wa&longs;ted and worn away by conti<lb/>
nual Alarms. </s> <s>Fi&longs;h are nouri&longs;hed by the Juices <lb/>
of the Earth; great Heat torments them, and <lb/>
extreme Fro&longs;t kills them; but they are very <lb/>
much plea&longs;ed and delighted by the Mid-day <lb/>
Sun. </s> <s>It is thought not ami&longs;s to have the tur<lb/>
bid Floods after Rains flow into the Pond &longs;ome<lb/>
times; but never upon the fir&longs;t Rain after the <lb/>
Dog-days; becau&longs;e they then have a &longs;trong <lb/>
Tincture of Lime, and will kill the Fi&longs;h; and <lb/>
afterwards too they &longs;hould be admitted but <lb/>
rarely, becau&longs;e their &longs;tinking Slime is apt to <lb/>
prejudice both the Fi&longs;h and Water too; but