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season, in the preparation of foods for game and 

 poultry.) 



Granulated Preserved Meat. — Imported in 

 large slabs from America. 



Now, although it has yet to be proved 

 that the dry-food system of rearing is 

 a satisfactory substitute in every case 

 for the older method, there seems no 

 reason, considering the advantages so 

 clearly pointed out in the letter we have 

 quoted, why every keeper should not give 

 it a trial at a few coops in his rearing- 

 field. A single season of experiment — 

 the limit so commonly set on the trial 

 of every novelty — is obviously worse than 

 useless, for the results can only be in- 

 conclusive, and may often be directly 

 misleading. Two or three years are the 

 least time in which a definite opinion can 

 be formed, yet how often have we all 

 seen some new practice written down a 

 failure after a single trial. 



Further inquiries about the use of this 

 system produced — as a by-product — an 

 account of an experiment in dispensing 



