. 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. llowing them boiled barley, malt, fresh grains, and fine pollard mixed up with ale or ether stimulants. Agood gander sits near his geese whilst they are sitting, and vigilantly protects them. Feeding upon thenest is seldom required ; and it is unnecessary to take any of the goslings from the mother as hatched;but pen the goose and her brood at once
. 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. llowing them boiled barley, malt, fresh grains, and fine pollard mixed up with ale or ether stimulants. Agood gander sits near his geese whilst they are sitting, and vigilantly protects them. Feeding upon thenest is seldom required ; and it is unnecessary to take any of the goslings from the mother as hatched;but pen the goose and her brood at once upon dry grass well sheltered, putting them out late in the morn-ing, or not at all in severe weather, and ever taking them in earlv in the evening. The first food may besimilar to that recommended for the duck, such as barley meal, bruised oats, or fine pollard, with somecooling green vegetables, as cabbage or beet leaves intermixed. 7516. Rearing. At first setting at liberty the pasturage of the goose should be limited ; otnerwise, ifallowed to range over an extensive common, the gulls or goslings will become tiled and crimped, andsome of them will fall behind and be lost. Mowbray advises to destroy all the hemlock and niphtshade in 4 A 3. 10!)4 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Tart III.
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