The art of hatching and bringing up domestick fowls of all kinds, at any time of the year. Either by means of the heat of hot-beds, or that of common fire / By M. de Réaumur.

  • René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
Date:
1750
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of hatching and bringing up domestick fowls of all kinds, at any time of the year. Either by means of the heat of hot-beds, or that of common fire / By M. de Réaumur. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    could not even have rendered it fufficiently inftruftive, by adding to it many particular accounts appertaining to the fubjebf, which the Jhort limits prefcribed for the ledlures of our public meetings, had obliged me to pafs over in filence ; the methods mentioned in it for the hatching and bringing up chickens9 require feveral branches of knowledge, and a great many fmall procejfes, the fum total of which conftitutes the fub- jedl matter of an art, of which that memoir gave at the utmofi only a part of the theory. Befides, when I read it at the academy, I fpoke only of experiments made in the mcjl favourable months of the year both for the hatching and the bringing up of chickens. 9Tis true, 1 had been led to thefe ex¬ periments by principles that feemed to promtfe 1 might make them almoft with equal fuccefs in the middle of winter. However, it was a material point to make myfelf certain by new experiments, that thefe principles had not led me to any too great hopes \ for there is always room for mijirufting ccnfequences which extend the refult of our experiments beyond what we have feen. I then thought it incumbent on me to try to hatch and bring up chickens during the harder feafons \ in order to be able to affert that the difference of the feafon re¬ quired no alteration in the proceedings, that it might at mcjl require fir idler precautions than at other times ; nor did two fuccefiive winters feem to me more than fufficient time for a repetition of the experiments which I judged abfolutely necejfary. In Jhort, as it is but after a certain time we can hope to fee all that can be done concerning a matter altogether new to us, I tnufi needs have fufpefted that all
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