. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 149. Goslings three or fourdays old Fig. 150. Goslings three weeks old farm the most important thing is to provide good pasture. Grass is not only the most econom-ical food, but it is the bestfood. Geese will grow andfatten on grass without grain,but will not fatten as quicklyor be as firm-fleshed. To fattenfor market they should be con-fined for from ten to twentydays before they are to be Fig. 151. Goslings nine weeks old ^ fed ^ ^ they will eat of some very fattening food. Corn soaked in wateruntil it is soft is an easily prepare
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 149. Goslings three or fourdays old Fig. 150. Goslings three weeks old farm the most important thing is to provide good pasture. Grass is not only the most econom-ical food, but it is the bestfood. Geese will grow andfatten on grass without grain,but will not fatten as quicklyor be as firm-fleshed. To fattenfor market they should be con-fined for from ten to twentydays before they are to be Fig. 151. Goslings nine weeks old ^ fed ^ ^ they will eat of some very fattening food. Corn soaked in wateruntil it is soft is an easily prepared food and a very good MANAGEMENT OE GEESE 173 Large Flocks of Geese ox Farms The most important goose-growing district in the UnitedStates is that part of Rhode Island where the colony system ofegg farming is used. This district is well adapted to goose grow-ing. The winters are not severe, and the birds can have grassalmost the year round. The breeding geese are often kept inpastures occupied by hens and cattle, but there are also manysmall ponds and marshy places used exclusively for geese. Theabsence of foxes makes it possible to keep them in fields a longway from the farmhouses, and for this reason many spots areused for geese which in other districts would be too large flocks of hens in this district give an abundance ofsitters to hatch the early goslings. As the person who looksafter the sitting hens and the young chickens on one of thesefarms has to give the greater part of his time to that work forseveral months in the spring, he can often use the remainingtime to best advantage by hatc
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