140 FARMING FOR LADIES. [ciiAP. VI. 



we know that a bantam and a game cock 

 will each eat the same quantity of corn ; 

 indeed, Mr. Parkinson states that he put a 

 large white Poland cock to some bantam 

 hens, in lieu of a bantam cock which he re- 

 moved ; and that " although the Polish cock 

 at first consumed a little more barley, he 

 soon ate only the very same quantity as the 

 bantam."* It should, however, be borne in 

 mind, — that the better the hens are fed, the 

 larger and the finer will he their eggs. 



Moubray says, that, in an experiment made 

 by himself in July, 1806, " a measured peck 

 of good barley kept a stock consisting of a 

 cock and three hens," (which it may be pre- 

 sumed were the common breed,) " together 

 with fifteen full-grown chickens, in a high 

 style of condition during eight clear days, 

 and one feed over ; though having no other 

 provision." According to another trial in the 

 winter season, he also states, " that a cock and 

 two hens kept by themselves during seven clear 

 days consumed a quarter of a peck of the best 

 barley, having no other food, and having 



* On Live Stock, vol. ii. p. 352. 



