t again. Let a
Candle stand all night over the Coop, and then they will eat much of the
night. With this course they will be prodigiously fat in a fortnight. Be
sure to keep them very sweet. This maketh the taste pure.

ANOTHER WAY OF FEEDING CHICKEN

Take Barley meal, and with droppings of small Ale, (or Ale it self) make it
into a consistence of batter for Pan-cakes. Let this be all their food.
Which put into the troughs before them, renewing it thrice a day, morning,
noon and evening; making their troughs very clean every time, and keeping
their Coops always very clean and sweet. This is to serve them for drink as
well as meat, and no other drink be given them. Feed them thus six days;
the seventh give them nothing in their troughs but powder of brick searced,
which scowreth and cleanseth them much, and makes their flesh exceeding
white. The next day fall to their former food for six days more, and the
seventh again to powder of Brick. Then again to barley Meal and Ale. Thus
they will be exceeding fat in fifteen days, and purely white and sweet.

TO FATTEN YOUNG CHICKENS IN A WONDERFULL DEGREE

Boil Rice in Milk till it be very tender and Pulpy, as when you make Milk
Potage. It must be thick, almost so thick, that a spoon may stand an-end in
it. Sweeten this very well with ordinary Sugar. Put this into their troughs
where they feed, that they may be always eating of it. It must be made
fresh every day. Their drink must be onely Milk, in another little trough
by their meat-trough. Let a candle (fitly disposed) stand by them all
night; for seeing their meat, they will eat all night long. You put the
Chicken up, as soon as they can feed of themselves; which will be within a
day or two after they are hatched, and in twelve days, or a fortnight, they
will be prodigiously fat; but after they have come to their height, they
will presently fall back. Therefore they must be eaten as soon as they are
come to their height. Their Pen or Coop must be contrived so, that the Hen
(who must be with them, to sit over them) may not go at liberty to eat away
their meat, but be kept to her own diet, in a part of the Coop that she
cannot get out of. But the Chicken must have liberty to go from her to
other parts of the Coop, where they may eat their own meat, and come in
again to the Hen, to be warmed by her, at their pleasure. You must be
careful to keep their Coop very clean.

TO FEED CHICKEN

Fatten your Chicken the first we