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Geefe are profitable ; for they will thrive git 

 grafs and water, and plucking them twice a 

 year amply pays by the feathers for the grafs 

 they eat. A peck of oats managed properly 

 will fatten a goofe fo as to be worth from four 

 to five (hillings in her feathers s and oats mufl: 

 be fcarce if a peck is valued at nine-pence, 

 which is twenty-four fhillings per quarter. — 

 But, fuppofing a goofe to eat a peck and a 

 half of oats, the coft will not exceed thirteen 

 pence half-penny ; fo that a goofe will pay the 

 breeder. 



Ducks may be eftimated on the fame foot- 

 ing as geefe ; and v/here you have the advan- 

 tage of water, they will pay well for breeding. 



Pioreons, to thofe who have no corn and can 

 reconcile their confciences to the plundering 

 their neighbours, may be profitable; for little 

 regard is now paid to the ftatute which forbids 

 the erefting a dove-cot but by leave of the 

 lord of the manor, or even keeping pigeons 

 without his permiflTion. 



To the farmer whofe pigeons eat his own 

 corn they are very expenfive. Pigeons arc 

 gluttons: the quantity of corn thsy devour is 



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