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guard you and your home from invasion by an enemy. The wonder 

 to me is that everybody with a little spare land does not keep a few 

 geese. x They will furnish the family with the choicest meat it is 

 possible to get at the lowest cost and the feathers will sell for from 

 twelve to fifteen cents a pound for colored and twenty-five to thirty 

 cents for white feathers. 



Old geese have a disease called "rattles" that is akin to roup in 

 chickens. Give a little physic like salts in the mash and keep clean. 



