RAISING 



favorable weather, will make good weights by late fall, 

 especially if given extra care and food. These late birds 

 make excellent eating about Christmas-time. The goose 

 usually makes her own nest, though it is well to help 



Fig. 83. PAIR OF TOULOUSE. 



her a little. She is a careful and constant mother, but 

 her love for the water must be restrained until the gos- 

 lings are a few weeks old, for many dangers, in the form 

 of musk-rats, snakes, turtles, etc., lurk at the water's 

 edge. 



