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CHAPTER XXIX. 



THE BREMEN GOOSE. 



THE following communication was kindly furnished me by 

 Samuel Jaques, Jr., Esq., accompanied with portraits of his 

 beautiful Bremen Geese. This, and. the Chinese or Hong 

 Kong variety, may be regarded as standing at the head of 

 their class. 



Ten Hills Farm, near Boston, Mass., Dec. 12th, 1850. 



J. J. KERR, M. D. : 



Dear Sir, My father Col. Samuel Jaques has had in- 

 timation from his friend, Dr. Eben Wight, of Boston, that you 

 were about to publish a work on the subject of Domestic 

 Fowls, Birds, &c., and that you would be pleased to receive 

 from my father some information relative to his Bremen 

 Geese a name they have received in consequence of their 

 having come from that place originally. I have my father's 

 notes to guide me in making the following statements, as well 

 as his approbation that you should be furnished with them. 



In the winter of 1820, a gentleman, a stranger, made a 

 brief call at my father's house; and, in course of conversation, 

 casually mentioned, that, during his travels in the interior of 

 Germany, he had noticed a pure white breed of Geese, of un- 

 usual size, whose weight, he supposed, would not fall much 

 short of twenty-five pounds each, providing they were well fed 

 and managed. At that period, a friend of my father's the 



