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measures of the boiled grain, which are not equivalent 

 to one of the dry. It was for two days only that they 

 were able to eat in a single day three pint measures 

 of the boiled maize ; for after that, they either lost 

 their appetite, or came to dislike it, as they could not 

 get through more than two pint measures of the boiled 

 maize. Even calculating that they were to consume 

 three pint measures a day of the boiled grain, there 

 would be a saving of more than one fifth, and if they 

 were satisfied with two pint measures, the profit would 

 be much more considerable ; for this would not be 

 equivalent to two thirds of a pint measure of the dry 

 grain. The saving, in this case, would be one third 

 and one fifth ; that is eight fifteenths, or more than one 

 half. 



Barley is also much more economical when given 

 boiled than dry ; for fowls, which would have eaten 

 two pint measures of dry barley a-day, ate but three 

 pint measures daily of the boiled grain. Therefore, 

 as ten pint measures of boiled barley are produced 

 from four pint measures of dry, three pints of the 

 boiled are equivalent to no more than one and a fifth 

 of a pint of the dry ; consequently, the experience in 

 dry barley is to that of boiled as five to three, showing 

 a saving of two fifths, by giving boiled instead of dry 

 barley. 



Wheat is shown by the preceding table to increase in 

 bulk by boiling about the same as barley ; but exper- 

 iments prove that the saving to be obtained by feeding 

 fowls with boiled wheat, is not nearly so much as 

 might thence have been anticipated ; for the same 

 fowls which consumed three pint measures of boiled 

 barley in one day, ate three pint measures of boiled 

 wheat. Three pints of boiled wheat, however, are not 

 equivalent to two pints of dry wheat, as in the case of 

 the barley, but only one pint and a half of dry wheat, 

 which was found to be the quantity consumed in one 

 day by the same fowls. Now as a pint of boiled wheat 

 is equivalent to no more than two fifths of a pint of 



