158 FOOD. 



have a good run of grass, require, or, at least, 

 receive very little attention. To make them 

 profitable, however, they should be regular- 

 ly fed twice a day. The food may consist 

 of cracked corn, sliced cabbages, buck- 

 wheat, carrots, turnips, either boiled or raw, 

 thrown into shallow vessels containing wa- 

 ter. Skimmed milk, when it can be readily 

 obtained, is to be preferred, as it has a great- 

 er tendency to fatten them. It is a com- 

 mon practice with our farmers to allow their 

 geese to run in the public highways, to the 

 great annoyance of travellers, and of their 

 neighbours. Such practices are illegal, and 

 subject them to heavy penalties in case of 

 accidents; but surely no honest man, who 

 desires not to offer any impediments to the 

 travelling public, nor to suffer the property 

 of his neighbour to be injured, need be re- 

 minded that he is acting against the law. 



The stupidity of the goose has passed into 

 a proverb, and yet those who have raised 

 many, attribute to them more sagacity than 

 is generally found in any other domesticated 

 fowl. In the London Magazine of Natu- 



