Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business . und for mixed or colored feathers. These are lowestwholesale or farm prices—those paid the producer. The more popular varieties of geese for the farmer are theEmbdens, Toulouse and Africans. Embden geese have purewhite plumage and orange legs. Adult ganders average to weigh 20 pounds; young ganders, 16 pounds; adult geese, 18pounds; young g
Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business . und for mixed or colored feathers. These are lowestwholesale or farm prices—those paid the producer. The more popular varieties of geese for the farmer are theEmbdens, Toulouse and Africans. Embden geese have purewhite plumage and orange legs. Adult ganders average to weigh 20 pounds; young ganders, 16 pounds; adult geese, 18pounds; young geese, 14 pounds. Toulouse geese are exten-sively bred, they have long deep bodies, color gray, shaded towhite except on wings which are gray or brown, legs ganders will average to weigh 20 pounds, young ganders18 pounds, adult geese 18 pounds, young geese 15 geese are the least noisy of all varieties and are popularfor crossing with other pure-bred or common geese to producequick growing market birds. They are gray in color, withorange legs and have a large knob on their heads which givesthem a formidable appearance. Adult ganders will weigh 20pounds, young ganders 16 pounds, adult geese 18 pounds, younggeese 14 WELL-BRED, FARM-RAISED GEESE 85 SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING
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