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Eice forms a yery agreeable change of diet; it 

 can be procured, a little damaged, for a small 

 price, and is cooling and alterative, wben pro- 

 perly prepared. The following is the method : 

 Boil for half-an-hour, and then let it stand in 

 the water till cold, when it wiU be found to have 

 swelled amazingly, and the mass so firm as to 

 admit of being taken out in lumps, and easily 

 broken up. 



Buck-wheat and hemp-seed are greedily de- 

 voured by poultry, and no grains are more 



