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tening fowls should be often renewed, fresh 

 and clean ; mdeed, those which have been 

 well kept, will turn w^ith disgust from ordi- 

 nary food and foul water. The profit of 

 my plan, allowing the heaviest and best 

 com to poultry, has lately been disputed, 

 both in France and EuQ-land. The sum of 

 my rejoinder is, that I have simply recorded 

 matter of experimental fact. 



Eggs. December 7, half-bred Poland 

 hen matched with the cock : began to lay 

 on the 28th. On March I, 1806, she had 

 laid 56 eggs, and afterwards set over 

 12 eggs. After incubation had commen- 

 ced she laid two cggs^ making the total 

 oS, which tw^o were wilhdraw^n. Her 

 eggs unbroken, w^eighed from one ounce 

 three quarters, to two ounces each, amount- 

 ing, at one and three quarters of an ounce 

 each, to nearly seven })ounds avoir4upoi8. 

 I had, from motives of cariosity, deducted 

 the . weight of the shells, but the memo- 

 randum is lost. The eggs of another hen, 

 in poor condition and ill-fed, were small, 

 light, and the yolk unsubstantial; the same 

 hen after good feeding, laid plenty of eggs 



