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abode and to each other. They are fed three 

 times a day ; and it is truly astonishing how 

 soon they acquire the knowledge of the pre- 

 cise time, marching from the exercise-ground 

 to the pens, like soldiers, in close column. 

 Goslings, or young geese, come to hand gene- 

 rally about the month of March, after which a 

 constant and regular supply arrives weekly 

 throughout the season. At first, they are fed 

 on soft meat, consisting of prime barley or 

 oatmeal, afterwards on dry corn. An idea 

 prevails with many, that any sort of corn will 

 do for poultry, this is a grand mistake. Those 

 who feed largely know better, and invariably 

 make it a rule to buy the best. The Messrs. 

 Boyce of Stratford, whose pens are capable of 

 holding the extraordinary number of four 

 thousand geese, independent of ducks, turkeys, 

 etc., consume twenty coombs of oats daily, 

 exclusive of other food." Who, not acquainted 

 with the great metropolis, would suspect that 

 a commercial concern, such as that noticed 

 above, connected merely with the production 

 of poultry for the markets, should exist, in- 

 volving, as it must do, no small amount of 

 capital and labour?* 



• The following paragraph appeared in several of the papers. 



