CHAP. XIII.] FARMING FOR LADIES. 279 



to be fed solely upon oats worth 305. per 

 quarter, would, within three weeks, bring 

 their cost of fatting to about ninepence each. 

 He then fed two other ducks on the middle 

 guts boiled, with a very little barley meal 

 put into the water, to form a sort of paste. 

 This they ate very greedily, and each in- 

 creased in weight at the rate of more than 

 half a pound a week : the cost being one 

 penny each. When killed, at the end of four- 

 teen days, their live and dead weight was — 



Live weight when put up. Do. before killed. 



lbs. oz. lbs. oz. 



Drake ....30.. ..42 



Duck .... 2 10 .... 3 13 



Dead weight. lbs. oz. 



Drake 2 10 



Duck 2 1 



Giblets 19 



Blood, feathers, and waste . . . . Ill 



The entire of the bone in the pair was to- 

 gether 10^ oz. : which bears nearly the same 

 proportion with other fowls when made mode- 

 rately fat. 



As general observations, it may be truly 

 said that both geese and ducks are the most 

 profitable sorts of poultry, as well as the 

 least troublesome in point of management, 



