1 6G Range — Hemlock — Yew. 



be always conveniently done^ The first 

 FOOD similar to that of the duck, but with 

 some cooling greens, clivers, or the like, 

 intermixed — namely, barley-meal, bruised 

 oats, or fine pollard. 



For the first range, a convenient 

 field containing water, is to be preferred to 

 an extensive common, over which the gulls 

 or goslins are dragged by the old one, until 

 they become cramped or tired, some of them 

 squatting down and remaining behind at 

 even, which the good housewife sees no more. 

 It is also necessary to destroy all the hem- 

 lock or deadly night-shade, within the 

 range of young geese, many of w'hich drop 

 off annually, from eating that poison, when 

 the cause is not suspected. I know not that 

 the elder geese w^ill eat hemlock, but I be- 

 lieve that both the young and old have been 

 occasionally killed by swallowing slips of 

 YEW. The young becoming pretty well 

 feathered, w^ill also be too large to be con- 

 tained or brooded beneath the mother's 

 wings, and w^ill then sleep in groups by 

 her side, and must be suppHed with good 



