142 Qiianiitij of Food. 



kept by themselves seven clear days, corf- 

 sumed a quarter of a peck of the best bar- 

 ley, having no other food, having as 

 much as they chose to eat. The same be- 

 ing tried at their liberty, and pecking about, 

 with cabbage leaves occasionally throw^n to 

 tlieni, did not eat so much barley in the 

 week, although allowed all they desired. 

 They were in a perfect thriving state, but 

 it must be reinen\bored that light and or- 

 dinary corn would not have gone so far, 

 or have kept the fowls in such condition. 

 Poultry which have their fdl of corn will 

 eat occasionally cabbage or mangul-wurtzel 

 leaves greedily. Barley and wheat are 

 the great dependence for chicken poultry. 

 The heaviest oats will keep them it is true, 

 but neither q:o so far as other corn, nor 

 agree so well with the chickens, being apt 

 to scour them, and the chickens generally 

 are tired of oats after a while, Brank or 

 French wheat, is also an unsubstantial 

 food. 



The Capon. I have already acknow- 

 ledged my infciiority in the affair of quickly 

 feeding poultry in close koops, and have a 



