April 2, IdOH.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 279 



Chinese. — These are sometimes 

 termed the African or Knobbed 

 goose, and are ke})t in America 

 extensively, owing to their very 

 -superior laying qualities. Not 

 that geese eggs of any variety are 

 a marketable commodity, but 

 rather that, from the thirty to 

 forty eggs laid by the Embden or 

 Toidouse, ten to fifteen goslings 

 may be the entire year's produce. 

 The Chinese, on the other hand, 

 lay two or three settings in the 

 season ; and, as the eggs are 

 usually fertile, it is nothing un- 

 usual for one goose to be the 

 parent of twenty or thirty gos- 

 lings in a year. 



In carriage, the Chinese goose 



African or Cape Goose. 



Toulouse at Hawkesbury College. 



differs largely from those already described, it being upright and statel}', with 

 a long, erected neck. It also differs from the Embden and Toulouse in having 



