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fattening geese, take great pains to keep them quiet. 

 Every precaution should be taken to avoid any 

 disturbance of the flock. Corn meal may form the 

 larger portion of the daily ration for fattening 

 geese. Meat scrap may enter into the ration up 

 to one-fifth of the total amount, for immature 

 fowls. 



Pate de foie gras. In districts where the pro- 

 duction of "pate de foie gras" has developed into 

 an industry, particularly about Strasburg, Ger- 

 many, the geese are confined in individual stalls 

 so closely that they are compelled to remain in 

 a sitting or standing posture. The stalls are nar- 

 row, so that the birds are not even permitted to 

 turn around. They are removed from this stall 

 twice each day and fed, by the cramming process, 

 whole Indian corn that has been thoroughly soaked. 

 The corn is forced into the mouth by hand and 

 pushed into the throat by the finger and is worked 

 down the neck by rubbing externally. The geese 

 are given plenty of pure water and grit in the 

 form of fine gravel. The close confinement and 

 abundance of corn cause the livers to grow abnor- 

 mally large, sometimes weighing as much as three 

 pounds each. 



It is said that expert feeders will produce large 

 livers in over 80 per cent of the geese fed. The 

 livers when prepared are known commercially 

 as "pate de foie gras," and are esteemed a great 



