The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-14
aeeee preeding for Profit.

Now TO show YOU how that is done. ! am
simply going to tell you how / do IT, First
we must have some understanding OF
/ the habits Of the goose says William
/ Rankin in American Agriculturist. They
/ are very domestic. When there is plenty
of food which they like, they viii confne
/ themselves to a small circle, but in scare
! ity are very apt TO wanlc in spring for
! the first early green grass that will first
1 start by the side of brooks and low places
/ They are very wise and shreWd, and with
a little scolding will condne themselves to
/ your limits, but the young gosling is al
ways looking for fresh fields. Drive them
/ from a place once quickly, scolding them
/ the white. and when they encroach again
/ you scold them. They viii run back TO
/ their place, but viii always closely watch
for the same opportunity when your back
! is turned. They will watch careless men
/ that leave open gates and will quickly
steal into your corn-fcld. You scream to
them sharply and they will come tumb-
ling out. but win soon forgive you and
viii sneak back again.
There are but about five varieties OF
/ geese worthy Of our consideration-the
African, Toulouse Bremen or Embden
| Brown and White China. The nearest
| perfect goose is the pure bred African, as
/ they lay more eggs, mature earlier ana
make more pounds of flesh in the same
time, while they are very vigorous and
hardy, and you will almost always raise
all you hatch. The Toulouse, while a
large variety, are with me not quite as
hardy, yet fun as good layers as the At
rican, but VIII not take on flesh as fast
for the early market while fattening.
The Emblem goose while not as large az
either the above varieties nor as good
layer, has one advantage in color, be-
ing pure white with "A yellow bill; when
picked it's flesh " hen fat is a clean white
and viii sell more readily. The brown
and White China are much smaller geese,
laying about as many eggs as the Emb-
den, but their size excludes them for
practical purposes
Now in selection for the purpose Of
breeding. Take the variety you desire to
breed, carefully select such as are strong
large. square. vigorous and healthy. See
that they are well mated. three geese with
one eander as "A colony; tben give them
place where they think they are not con-
fined. giving as large liberty as you can,
but locate them. Place as nests for their
use some covered boxes about two rect
square, putting IN some fine cut straw.
and a nest egg in each nest. Have each
goose lay in her own box. Then you nave
one colony fixed. Gour next colony you VIII
place at some remote distance and teach
them 70 run together, and separate from
the others. You can breed as many colo
MES as you can accommodate. No matter
II the ganders do come together once in a
while and have a little sparring match-it
is something practiced by geese Of higher
culture Feed each colony near their nests
teach them that that is their home and
when there they are not to be mOlested.
The way feed them is to boil cabbage,
turnips or potatoes and mix with corn
meal Give them all they viii eat Of this
with a good feed Of corn once day.
Keep ground oyster shells by them all the
time. When they begin to lay take heir
eggs as soon as convenient and with
pencil write on the egg the date, colony,
goose and numbers No. J. 2, g. and 50
on, so at the end of the laying season you
know how many eggs each goose lays.
Should she be very productive mark her
a one you want 10 preserve by two holes
and so on with this method. after a few
years you viii secure for yourself a iot Of
first class egg producers. Should you hap
pen 10 lose any Of your Aocks always re-
place from the best laying goose you have
and get your ganders from the same class
Of goose I always raise from geese of
highest register. Thirty years ago /
rarely had a bird that would lay over 30
eggs now they often lay 90 and occa
sionally more.