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at a distance, so as to be out of the hearing of the old 

 or store Geese. 



" Besides the benefits that may be derived from Geese 

 in the feathers and the birds as food, it seems not im- 

 probable, but that they might be made to produce a con- 

 siderable advantage in the way of manure, if managed 

 under a system of constant littering with straw, fern, 

 or some other substance of the same kind, as from the 

 great quantity of grass they consume, the discharge in 

 the night is very considerable." 



FEINTED BT W. H. LIZAKS, EDINBURGH. 



