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Ration. The goose will not quit until she 

 has completed her hatch, nor would it be 

 very practicable to take any of the goslins 

 from her, were it necessary, as she is too 

 strong and resolute and might kill some in 

 the struggle. 



It has been formerly recommended, to 

 keep the newly-hatched gulls in house, 

 during a week, least they get cramp from 

 tlie damp earth, to which they are indeed 

 liable ; but we did not find this in-door 

 confinement necessary, penning the goose 

 and her brood between four hurdles, upon 

 a piece of dry grass well sheltered, putting 

 them out late in the morning, or not at all 

 in severe weather, and ever taking them in, 

 early in the evening. Sometimes we have 

 pitched double the number of hurdles, for 

 the convenience of two broods, there be- 

 ing no quarrels among this sociable and 

 harmless part of the feathered race, so un- 

 like those quarrelsome and murderous fiends, 

 tJie common, or gallinaceous fowls. We 

 did not even find it necessary to interpose 

 a parting hurdle, which, on occasion, may 



