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sist between the soil or animals of England 

 and France, I am not qualified to deter- 

 mine ; I can only assure the reader that my 

 rule is the result of long and actual experi- 

 ence. A certain English traveller, nearly 

 twenty years since, brought home and pub- 

 lished an account almost equally extraordi- 

 nary of French me;?. This point also, I leave 

 to abler judges. As to poultry keepers 

 in any country, it will readily be believed 

 that they make few experiments, and still 

 fewer records ; and the keeper of two or 

 three score hens, at anv rate brcedins: a 

 considerable stock from such a inmiher^ 

 does not trouble himself to investigate the 

 merits of his practice, satisfied that it is ac- 

 cording to the established mode. 



Quantities of food. By an experi- 

 ment mjide in July, 1806, a measured 

 peck of good barley, kept in a high style 

 of condition, the following stock, confined, 

 and having no other provision : one cock;, 

 3 hens, 3 March chickens, 6 April and 6 

 May ditto, during eight clear days, and 

 one feed left. According to another trial, 

 in the winter season, a cock and two hens 



