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Wild Fowl, Plucking Of

It is rather a tedious affair to dispossess the generality of wild fowl of the closely-adhesive down which is peculiar to them. The most effectual plan to adopt is to immerse the birds, when divested of their feathers, in scalding water. Allow them to remain there for about two minutes. Have at hand some finely-powdered resin, and rub it well over the fowl with the hand, by which means the whole of the down will be removed.