. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 10!)4 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Tart their range; and he says he has known them killed by swallowing sprigs of yew. As the young becomepretty well feathered, they become also too large to be brooded beneath the mothers wing, and as they willthen sleep in groups by her side, they must be well supplied with straw beds, which they will convert int
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 10!)4 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Tart their range; and he says he has known them killed by swallowing sprigs of yew. As the young becomepretty well feathered, they become also too large to be brooded beneath the mothers wing, and as they willthen sleep in groups by her side, they must be well supplied with straw beds, which they will convert intoexcellent dung. Heing able, says Mowbray, to frequent the pond and range the common at large, tneyoung geese will obtain their living, and few people, favourably situated, allow them any thing more, the vegetable produce of the garden, lint it has been his constant practice always to dispense amoderate quantity of any solid corn or pulse at hand to the flocks of store geese, both morning and even-ing, on their going out aiid their return, together, in the evening more especially, with such greens aschanced to be at command : cabbage, mangel-wurzel leaves, lucerne, tares, and occasionally sliced such full keeping hi> geete were ever in a lleshy state, and a
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