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meant by good ones always looking pale, and wast- 

 ing away ? One would suppose that " wasting 

 away," must be indicative of loose, flabby, and bad 

 flesh, instead of good. 



WOKINGHAM, in Berks, is particularly famous 

 for fatted fowls, by which many persons in that town 

 and vicinity gain a livelihood. The fowls are sold 

 to the London dealers, and the sum of 150 has 

 been returned in one market day by this traffic. 

 Twenty dozen of these fowls were purchased for one 

 gala at Windsor, after the rate of half a guinea the 

 couple. At some seasons, fifteen shillings have been 

 paid for a couple. Fowls constitute the principal 

 commerce of the town. Romford, in Essex, is also 

 a great market for poultry, but generally of the store 

 or barn-door kind, and not artificially fed. FOWL, 

 as well as GOOSE FEEDING, is carried on to a far 

 greater extent in the vicinity of London, than in any 

 other part, namely, at Bow and Stratford, where the 

 fowl-feeding system is said to be equally regular and 

 the food equally good, as with the goose. It is said 

 also, that the dispatch in feeding is superior to any 

 thing known elsewhere. 



The following names were given me several years 

 since, of considerable country fowl-feeders : 



Mr. S. Paget, Reigate ; Mr. Laury, Mr. Ed- 

 wards and Mr. Potter, of Dorking ; Miss Cooper, 

 of Cambridge ; Mr. Flatt, Suffolk. 



The Wokingham METHOD OF FEEDING is to con- 

 fine the fowls in a dark place, and cram them with a 

 paste made of barley-meal, mutton suet, treacle, or 

 coarse sugar, and milk, and they are found com- 



