80 LONDON SUPPLY SALE. 



the best and finest grained meat besides being, in the 

 opinion of good judges, the most inclined to feed, and 

 fatted with the smallest proportionable quantity of 

 food, to the greatest comparative weight and size. 



The greatest supply, and of the best quality, of 

 turkeys, are said to be derived from Cambridgeshire 

 and Norfolk ; of geese from Suffolk. The same of 

 Surrey and Essex, for fowls and chickens ; Essex also 

 supplies most of Guinea and pea-fowls. 



The week preceding Michaelmas Day 1830, forty 

 tons of poultry were sent from Bury St. Edmunds, 

 Suffolk, to London, thirty of which were geese ; and 

 sixteen tons of the latter were the property of Messrs. 

 Flatt and Walton, poulterers of Tostock and Hep- 

 worth in that county : the whole were conveyed by 

 the waggons of Sykes and Co. 



Mr. Clarke, of Boston, transmitted to London in the 

 Christmas of 1833, the following quantity of poultry : 

 2400 geese, and 800 turkeys ; Mr. Haines, poultry- 

 man of Spalding, also killed and forwarded to Leaden- 

 hall market 1150 geese, 500 turkeys, 200 ducks, and 

 30 dozen fowls. 



