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ed to go, at their full liberty, until a month old, at Jeast. A duck, with young ones, always to be kept away from others, being allowed plenty of clean water and straw. Ducks are great devourers of any kind of victuals; but will make but a poor figure without corn. In the acorn season, they will get very fat, and do not eat amiss; fed with the offal of the slaughter-house, they acquire the colour and flavour of wild-fowl. The Ruones breed, from France, are larger, but coarser-fleshed, and not so fine-flavoured as our own; they cross well with the English breed.

An exception must be made in favour of GEESE; which will graze to advantage, and make much good manure; they are, besides, useful in a farm-— yard, for giving alarm, by night. One gander to five geese, setting and management similar to the duck.——The goose carries straw in her bill, asa sign she is about to lay, and must then have a nest prepared for her. Give chopped-cabbage, lettuce, or carrots, and some corn,(oats), particularly when they set, for the young ones, chopped-clivers and meal. Not to be sent out to graze too early, and always fed before turning out, lest they wander be- yond their strength, which is the occasion of many being lost every year. Suffolk geese are as good as any. A goose fattens well on oats, in six weeks, hittered down with clean straw; if from the stub- bles in two or three weeks.

Tourkiks, a staple article in Norfolk, where the good wives send their hens to some cock‘kept in the neighbourhood, to avoid the charge of keep- ing a Stallion. Hen covers eleven or‘more eggs, according to her size, and will steal a nest abroad,

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