40 The Goose. 



with the Em DEN geese. They arc said to 

 be early breeders. The Canvass-backed 

 ducks of America, bred only on the Po- 

 towmac and Susquehanah rivers, are said 

 to be the best in the world. I believe, 

 they have never yet been imported into 

 Europe. Ducklings are not safe in waters 

 stocked with ells. 



The Goose. 



The Goose is a considerable object of 

 mral economy, kept in large flocks in the 

 Eastern and fen counties of England. In 

 some of those parts, their geese are ex- 

 posed to the cruel operation of being an- 

 nually stripped of their feathers ; indeed, 

 the interested feelings of man know no scru- 

 ple, and the cruelties practised upou the 

 poor sea fowl, which have their down and 

 featliers torn from them, and are then cast 

 into the sea to perish, are enormous, and 

 yet as it should seem, irremediable. Goose 

 dung is a very powerful manure, and a 

 large flock would have considerable effect 



