375 P O U L R Y. 4». 



for one brood. Thus relieved from the 

 expence and difagrecablenefs of keeping a 

 male bird, moil little farmers, and many cot- 

 tagers, rear turkics. This accounts for the 

 number : and the fpccies, and the food they 

 are fatted with (which, I believe, is wholly 

 buck) account for their fuperior fize and qua- 



lit,'. 



With refpe^t to geese, dltcks and fowls 

 of this country, nothing is noticeable; ex- 

 cept that they are, in general, below the 

 common fize, and that it is a pradlice to put 

 young goflings upon green wheat : a piece of 

 houfewifery which perhaps is peculiar to the 

 country. 



Poultry of every fpecies are fold, in the mar- 

 kets, ready picked and ikewered fit for the fpit ; 

 and are, in general, fo well fatted, and drciled 

 up in fuch neatnefs and delicacy, as fhew the 

 Norfolk-houfewives to be midreffes in the arc 

 of managing poultry. 



41. DECOY?. 



