170 OUIl DOMESTIC FOWLS, 



constitute the fattening diet on which they are 

 fed, and in a short time they are ready, as 

 green geese, for the market ; and are in high 

 request, though for ourselves we prefer a 

 stubble-fed goose in autumn in good condition, 

 but not (as too often is seen in the London 

 poulterers') overladen with oily fat. It is 

 however, to the farmer, and not the great 

 feeder of these birds, that we must look for a 

 really stubble-fed goose at Michaelmas. 



The following extract from the Penny 

 Cyclopaedia, will convey a good idea of the 

 mode in which poultry are managed by the 

 feeders for the London markets. 



" Cleanliness, punctuality, and regularity 

 prevail ; the business is conducted as it were 

 by machinery, rivalling the vibrations of the 

 pendulum in uniformity of movement. The 

 grand object of preparing not only geese, but 

 poultry in general, for market, in as short a 

 time as possible, is effected solely by paying 

 unremitting attention to their wants, — in keep- 

 ing them thoroughly clean, in supplying them 

 with proper food, (dry, soft, and green,) water, 

 exercise-ground, etc. On arriving at the feeders, 

 they are classed according to condition, etc. ; 

 they soon become reconciled to their new 



