A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



three geese and a gander gave us a quartet 

 of breeders that have never earned less than 

 $130 a season. 



Geese, being grazing creatures possessed 

 with a vicious habit of nibbling down to the 

 roots of sod, cannot be allowed the run of the 

 farm, and ordinary yards would soon be- 

 come defiled and barren. So a strip of newly 

 cleared land or old pasture should be con- 

 verted into a compound for their exclusive 

 use. 



One domestic gander will tend from three 

 to five geese. If more than that number 

 are to be kept, each family should have indi- 

 vidual establishments, stationed as far apart 

 as the dimensions of the compound will 

 allow; putting up a fence to enclose thirty 

 or forty feet around each coop, and placing 

 feed and water cans within them. At the 

 expiration of a month they will acknowledge 

 it as home, and cling together faithfully as 

 one family; then the fence can be removed, 

 as, clanship once established, there is little 



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