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experiment would have been more correct if 

 made only upon either cocks or pullets. 



The difference in point of expense was next 

 to nothing : the quantity of barley being four 

 quarts and a half, and the rice four pounds, 

 of which much was wasted in consequence of 

 the milk becoming sour in the hot weather. 

 The cost of the rice, at the wholesale price, 

 was sixpence, and of the barley sixpence three 

 farthings — no account having been taken of the 

 milk, though, if purchased, it might have cost 

 twopence when skimmed. The baker's raspings 

 cost one penny; so that the entire fatting of 

 the pair, during four weeks, only amounted to 

 fifteen pence three farthings. 



In feeding, although the pullet had the rice 

 given to her both raw and boiled, she was 

 observed to eat far more of the latter ; and 

 we understand that in China, and throughout 

 a great part of the East Indies, where rice is 

 commonly used for the fatting of poultry, 

 it is always boiled: the better way is, how- 

 ever, in our opinion, to give both barley and 

 rice — the one raw, and the other boiled. 



