\3if Premium for Rearing. 



difficult and often impossible to fatten long- 

 legged fowls in koop, which, however, are 

 brought to a good weight, at the barn- 

 door. 



In the year 1779, says one of those 

 small publications, which are circulated 

 Uirough the country, for the instruction of 

 our house-waives, a gentleman in London 

 presented to a learned body, a newly-in- 

 vented method of rearing chickens for the 

 spit, quicker than was ever before disco- 

 vered, for which tlie learned society ho- 

 noured liim wnth a gold medal. The me- 

 thod is as follow^s — the chickens are to be 

 taken from the hen, the night after they 

 are hatched, and fed with eggs boiled hard, 

 chopped and mixed with crumbs of bread, 

 as larks and other birds are fed, for the 

 first fortnight ; after which, give them oat- 

 meal and treacle mixed so as to crumble, 

 of which the chickens are very fond, and 

 thrive so fast, that at two months' end, 

 they w^ill be as large as full grown fowls. 

 On this sagacious project, I shall only re- 

 mark, that, however learned the public 

 body alluded to might be on other im- 



