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cause we need grain to fatten them. With this variety, 

 however, and the Embden, which matures early and at- 

 tains a great weight also, it is different ; the goslings are 

 heavy before they are fat, carry a good deal of flesh, and 

 are tender and delicious early in the season, when simply 

 grass-fed, or having had but little grain. 



Fig. 85. PAIR, OF EMBDEN G 



In breeding geese, the surplus stock of goslings is killed 

 off every year. None need be saved for wintering and 

 breeding, except it may be well to koep one or two fine 

 geese to take the places of old birds killed or hurt by 

 Borne accident. Geese lay regularly, brood and rear their 

 goslings well for fifty to eighty years, and it is said grow 



