FATTENING GEESE. 127 



oats, boiled potatoes should be added, being mixed 

 with the grain and curdled milk ; five or six days' 

 afterwards a little barley-meal, buckwheat, or maize 

 may be mixed with it, or peas cooked or crushed, 

 boiled radishes, &c., and one may give them to drink 

 curdled milk mixed' with pollard. After eighteen or 

 twenty days of this treatment, from the day on which 

 they were confined, they are perfectly fattened, and 

 this method is not costly. If one wishes to make 

 them still more perfect, after feeding, the poultry 

 woman takes the goose between her knees, and makes 

 it swallow, twice a day, seven or eight patons made 

 with meal and potatoes." 



