114 FATTENING IMPOSTHUME. 



fluous. We do not phrase it turnip root or carrot 

 root. Thus much for the economy of words. 



Geese managed on the above mode will be 

 speedily FATTENED green, that is, at a month or six 

 weeks old, or after the run of the corn stubbles. 

 Two or three weeks after, the latter must be suffi- 

 cient to make them thoroughly fat ; indeed, I prefer 

 a goose fattened entirely in the stubbles, granting it 

 to have been previously in good case, and be full 

 fed in the field ; since an over-fattened goose is too 

 much in. the oil-cake and grease-tub style, to admit 

 even the idea of delicacy, tender firmness, or true 

 flavour. But when needful to fatten them, the feed- 

 ing-houses already recommended are most conve- 

 nient. With clean and renewed beds of straw, 

 plenty of clean water, and upon oats crushed or 

 otherwise, pea or bean-meal, the latter, however, 

 coarse and ordinary food ; or pollard ; the articles 

 mixed up with skimmed milk when to be obtained, 

 geese will fatten pleasantly and speedily. Very lit- 

 tle greens of any kind should be given to fattening 

 geese, as being too laxative, and occasioning them 

 to throw off their corn too quickly ; whence their 

 flesh will prove less substantial and of inferior fla- 

 vour. Greens are the more proper food for store 

 geese. 



I know nothing of the imposthume, said by our 

 elders to grow upon the rump of the feeding goose, 

 and through which she perpetually, like a bear, 

 sucks her own fat, and which excrescence thence 

 must needs be exsected. Nor am I, however ar- 



