122 FATTENING IMPOSTHUME. 



which is commonly anglicised mangel, signifies beet 

 and wurtzel root. The latter word is then super- 

 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 speed- 

 ily 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 sufficient 

 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 



