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and renewed straw beds, which they con- 

 vert into excellent dung. Being now able 

 to frequent the pond, and range the com- 

 mon at large, the young geese will obtain 

 their living, and few people, favourably si- 

 tuated, allow them any thing more, except- 

 ing the vegetable produce of the garden. 

 But it has been my constant practice, al- 

 ways to dispense a moderate quantity of any 

 soUd corn or pulse at hand, to the flocks of 

 store geese, both morning and evening, on 

 their going out, and their return, together, 

 in the evening more especially, with such 

 greens as chanced to be at command : cab- 

 bage, mangel, wurtzel-leaves, lucerne, tares, 

 and occasionally sliced carrots. By such 

 full keeping our geese were ever in a fleshy 

 state, and attained a large size ; the young 

 ones were also forward and valuable breed- 

 ing stock. 



Geese managed on the above mode, will 

 be speedily fattened green, that is, at a 

 month or six weeks old, or after the run of 

 the corn stubbles. Two or three weeks af- 



