37 2 KALm's ENGLAND. 



horizontally upon a frame, larger or smaller according to 

 the quantity of milk they have for it, and has narrow 

 boards set inside lengthwise, full of holes to work the 

 cream more. This Churn is turned round with a winch- 

 handle. 



The Jth July, 1748. 



Gass. Geese. The story was related to me to-day by 

 those who said they themselves had seen it, that in 

 Lincolnshire [T. II. p. 7] and in other places in England, 

 once a year, viz., in the summer-time, nearly all the 

 feathers and down are plucked off living geese, which after a 

 time again get new down and feathers in the place of the 

 old ones ; although they will look disfigured enough at 

 first, when they are newly plucked. Those who have 

 this custom with their geese pretend that the down and 

 feathers which are plucked off the goose whilst it is living 

 will have the property that when they are laid in a bolster 

 and anyone lies upon it so that they become crammed 

 together, as soon as one gets out of bed, they will 

 immediately spring up again and expand themselves to 

 the same height as before, so that it will be scarcely 

 observable whether anyone has lain in the bed. Such 

 elasticity will this down have ! At least there will be a 

 very great distinction in this respect between those which 

 have been plucked from a goose while he was alive, and 

 after he is dead. Here in Kent, as in Essex, there are 

 geese enough bred by the farmers; likewise ducks, 

 Anckor. 



At fa Kalf-Kott hvitt. To make Veal white. 



Here in England, the county of Essex is particularly 

 noted before other counties for its Calves, which have a 

 very excellent, fat, very tender, and very white flesh. 

 And that it may become so much the whiter, I saw 

 during my visit to Woodford, that the Farmers, or rustics, 



