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fattened, the most usual modes are those 

 stated in the following chapter. 



Many persons imagine that the hoiling of 

 corn is not only an economical mode of feed- 

 ing poultry, but also a superior method of 

 fattening them — upon the principle that, as 

 measure is the guide in filling the stomach, 

 so should it satisfy the bird ; and as the grain 

 swells in the boiling, hulk should be the guide 

 in nourishing it. M. Reaumur, therefore, 

 made several experiments upon that subject, 

 of which the following is an abstract : — 



Different species of corn having been 

 boiled until the grain burst, then taken out 

 of the water and cooled, it was found that 

 four measures of each had swelled to such a 

 degree as severally to have increased to the 

 following amounts : namely — 



from which we should naturally suppose that 

 the volume being so prodigiously enlarged. 



