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TO FEED CHICKEN
First give them for two days paste made of Barley Meal and Milk with
Clyster Sugar to scowre them. Then feed them with nothing but hashed
Raisins of the Sun. The less drink they have, the better it is: for it
washeth away their fat; but that little they have, let it be broken Beer;
Milk were as good or better; but then you must be careful to have it
always sweet in their trough, and no sowerness there to turn the Milk.
They will be prodigiously fat in about twelve days: And you must kill them,
when they are at their height: Else they will soon fall back, and grow fat
no more.
Others make their Paste of Barley meal with Milk and a little course Sugar,
and mingle with it a little (about an eight part) of powder of green Glass
beaten exceeding small. Give this only for two days to cleanse their
stomacks. Then feed them with paste of Barley-meal, made sometimes with
Milk and Sugar, and sometimes with the fat skimmed off from the pot, giving
them drink as above.
Others make a pretty stiff paste for them with Barley-meal (a little of the
coursest bran sifted from it) and the fat scummed off from the boiling pot,
be it of Beef (even salted) or Mutton, &c.
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