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Drinking: by Inntlnct. Some discussion has lately occurred In scientific journals on the question whether newly-hatched chickens will drink water if the mother hen does not Bet them the example. Mr. H. W. Elliott, in a letter to Science, answers positively that chickens will drink of their own accord. He has frequently placed a dish of water before a brood hatched the day before, and observed Mie chickens, without any maternal or assistance, putting their bllls into the water and lifting: up their heads to swallow lt, in the manner of fnll-gTOTni fowls.