254 FARMIA^G FOR LADIES, [chap, xii, 



" I buy them off the common late in June, 

 or very early in July. They have cost me 

 from 2s. to 35. each, first purchase. I bring 

 the flock home, and put them in a pen, about 

 20 feet square, where I keep them well lit- 

 tered with straw, so as for them not to get 

 filthy. They have one trough in which I 

 give them dried oats, and they have another 

 trough where they have constantly clean 

 water. Besides these, we give them, two 

 or three times a day, a parcel of lettuces 

 out of the garden. We give them such as 

 are going to seed generally, but the better 

 the lettuces are, the better the geese. If 

 we have no lettuces to spare, we give them 

 cabbages, either loaved or not loaved, though 

 observe, the white cabbage, as well as the 

 white lettuce, that is to say the loaved cab- 

 bage and lettuce, are a great deal better than 

 those that are not loaved. This is the food 

 of my geese : they thrive exceedingly upon 

 this food. After we have had the flock about 

 ten days we begin to kill, and we proceed 

 once or twice a week till about the middle of 

 October, sometimes later. A great number 

 of persons who have eaten of these geese 



