The horse and other live stock . und color is ofa dirty white; their legs, feet, eyes, and short stump of a bill,are black; they have a gray spot on the crown of the head,gray patches on the-back and wings, and a yellowish tingeabout the forepart of the head. The old birds are very gentlein their disposition and habits, and are less noisy than mostgeese. The service they may render as weed-eaters is important, though their size alone precludes any comparison of them, in this respect, with the swan. Their favorite feeding-grounds are extensive flats, partially inundated by the higher tides; and
The horse and other live stock . und color is ofa dirty white; their legs, feet, eyes, and short stump of a bill,are black; they have a gray spot on the crown of the head,gray patches on the-back and wings, and a yellowish tingeabout the forepart of the head. The old birds are very gentlein their disposition and habits, and are less noisy than mostgeese. The service they may render as weed-eaters is important, though their size alone precludes any comparison of them, in this respect, with the swan. Their favorite feeding-grounds are extensive flats, partially inundated by the higher tides; and their breeding may perhaps best be. promoted by their being furnished with a little sea-weed during winter and early spring; a few shrimps, or small muscles, would probably not be unacceptable. A single pair is more likely to breed than it they are congregated in larger THE BREMEN GOOSE. 89 THE BREMEN GOOSE. The Bremen geese—so called from the place whence theywere originally imported, though some term them Embden. A BREMEN OOOSE. geese—have been bred in this country, pure, and to a feather, since 1821; no single instance having occurred in which the slightest deterioration of character could be observed,. The produce has invariably been of the purest white ; the bill, legs, and feet being of a beautiful yellow. The flesh of this goose does not partake of that dry character which belongs to other and more common kinds, but is as 409 90 POULTRY AND THEIR DISEASES. tender and juicj as the flesli of a wild fowl; it shrinks less incooking than that of any other fowl. Some pronounce itsflesh equal if not superior to that of the canvas-back likewise sit and hatch with more certainty thancommon barn-yard geese; will weigh nearly, and in someinstances quite, twice the weight—the full-blood weighingtwenty pounds and upward ; they have double the quantity offeathers ; and never fly. THE BKENT GOOSE. This is a small species, twenty-one inches long, common ina
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