VEGETABLE FIBRES. 223 



ing of wheat bread and milk, with a little white sugar candy, informatioa 



More than one meal of that sort would make them heavy or respecting 

 , _ , ,• , . 1 . 1 . ■ breediiig,tniin« 



lumpy. In the summer season, after being physicked, they i^o- and ma- 

 get air the second day, but in the winter diey ought to be kept nagement of 

 warm, without being at the same time too hot. game coc 



Brandy, or any heating drug on the day of fighting, does 

 more harm than good. They may get, however, just before 

 Ihey set to, a lew barley corns, with a little real sherry 

 wine. 



A cock's first battle is his best, and a cock first penned, of 

 equal goodness, will beat a double penned one. 



Game cocks live fully as long as common fowls. In some 

 cases they have lasted above fourteen years, and as sound as 

 the first day. They are so hardy that they can be reared in 

 the winter time much better than the dunghill sort. The cross 

 between a game cock and a dunghill hen is excellent eating 

 either as chickens or fowls. 



XII. 



Observations on the Culture, Properties, and comparative Strength 

 of Hemp, and other vegetable Fibres, the Growth of the East 

 Indies, ^y Z)r. William Roxburgh *. 



Tc 



(Continued from Page 47 of our Xlth Volume.) 



O prove the durability of the various materials formerly Course of ex- 

 mentioned, I had recourse to maceration in fresh wafer, periments> 

 during the hot season. The result of these trials will be 

 found in the following table, which, in a great measure, cor- 

 responds with the former, showing the comparative strength 

 of the various cords mentioned therein, by weights suspended 

 by four feet lengths of them. The first three columns on the 

 left, have been explained in the first part of these observations; 

 in this the largest cord only of each sort has been inserted. 

 The three last on the same side express the average weight at 

 which each sort of cord broke, after having been kept at the 

 bottom of muddy, half putrid, stagnant pond water, from the 

 ^7tb of February to the 22d of June, 1801. 



From 

 * From the Memoirs of the Society of Arts, 1 806, 



