The sun., 1907-12-22

when an Esquimau brought in a dog sled
piled high with polar geese. We thought
they would be splendid eating, but when
they were served we found that they had
a very oily taste, probably caused by the
protective fluid for their feathers soaking
in through their skin. They were also
very hard to chew. al a result doubtless
OF their semi-annual exertiOns OF hylng
from pole to pole without stopping.
i understand a certain magazine writer
geese in Colorado and that he has found
them fine eating. IL is well known fact
that these geese breed only In the Arctic
regions, and then only in the winter.
The egg. your gees laid last Wsnter
winter you want to he careful and have
the yard you keep them In swept daily
One reason why you haven't got any
eggs may be- that the geese aren't used
to laying in any kind Of a nest except one
made OF Arctic driftwood and trimmed
with the soft under feathers OF their breast.
! got hold of one Of their nests, which was
three feet high.
did You notice that these geese have
double jointed mouths and that their
throats are easy of imitation like the snakes
The EsqIiman told me Rt Hudson Bay
that when these geese get excited they
swallow their eggs"
Things went on glOriously at the Park
Department in the Arsenal. with more
bestowed on pr. smith from scientists
the world over. until one bitter morning
recently a letter came in from W. r. ID
Stokes II will be remembered that Mr..
stokes got sudden reputation as a scieu-
tist recently when the inspectors OF the
Roard Of Health heard that he was breeding
pigs and geese on top OF a hotel in the
neighborhOod Of West Seventy-second
street.
This letter read:
4 ola faA
stock farm OF Homer Davenport. the well
known naturalist and lecturer on SlivertOn,
Ore, over az Morris Plains, ". j. ! happened
TO tell Of the phIlsnthrop,c 10y often telS ~
! Washing ngton Market and turned them loose
! in the Ramble In Central Park on my way
InSsis IS,eT about G The % strange dock Of Japanese
! and Ongolian pheasants that mad iound
their way into the park and how they had been
/ captured az interesting exhibits.
| Davenport then told OF three curious nature
| freaks that had been born on his place during
ducE had lost her mate and had made love
| TO q brown Egyptian gentleman goose. also
oereayed VITO Sas rssu , .ynr JnsS xrscsS hsrn-
| ward were found strutting around the back
uopE Thew S"I neither oiacksd nor sauawked. but
| let out unearthly screeches that scandalized
| the other fowls Mr.. Davenport SAID they
might properly be classsd as or1lthOlOglca
| mules, and declared that he wanted TO get rid
| Of them. YA.L
! When I went away from the farm had the
| three hybrids and twenty y-nve ordinary geese
tied up securely in gnnnysacks, At $50
! o'clock at night I turned the whole OUTFIT
oOse In Central Park The next eS,, -, morning I,iL
/ that ! had good reason to believe he had
| three Arctic geese in lhe park DR. Smith
the hybrids, with the results that you are
familiar with.
/ am merely sending YOU these simple facts
! in a spirit or Kindness due 20 the approach
| OF the Christmas season. Would suggest
| that II YOU get = reasonable Offer for the rare
specimens you'd better sell them, for an
! expert naturalist who has met the offspring
Of an Egyptian goose and Wlnnipex duck
hyperbOrla Dolaris.
IT. Wow Of the foregoing the Importance
of the forthcoming meeting Of the Society
for the Suppression ri Nature Swtnders
can scarcely be overertimated. In the
meantime ecretary Holly has RELAXED the
vigilance Of the watch over the nests Of the
Arctic geese In the psrk.