122 FARMING FOP. LADIES. [chAP. v. 



toasted bread sopped in ale, or broth, is 

 a good remedy. Barley-meal mixed up with 

 a little milk should be frequently given ; 

 but all watery food — even meal, if mixed 

 up with much milk, like gruel — should be 

 avoided ; for, if continued, it will subject 

 them to the scour. At six weeks old they 

 may be fed on whole corn, to which boiled 

 potatoes of a floury kind, given hot, may be 

 added, along with any scraps from the table, 

 in the same manner as to store-fowls : but, 

 if intended to be fattened immediately, they 

 cannot be too highly kept, and should get no- 

 thing but barley-meal and corn, together with 

 a little meat, either raw or dressed, and shred 

 very fine ; for it may be observed that animal 

 food is congenial to young chickens, not 

 only on account of its great nutriment, but as 

 requiring little effort of the powers of diges- 

 tion ; and it is inconceivable with what relish 

 they will eat it, either alone or mixed up with 

 meal. On the subject o^ fattening we, how- 

 ever, beg leave to refer our readers to 

 Chapter VII. 



The coarse sand which they pick up in the 

 garden will be sufficient to aid their diges- 



