46 ITATUBE AND ITS 



Be Gentle with Geese. 



Don't have a goose fat when the laying- season com- 

 mences, but feed them well while they are laying. 



To fatten young geese for market, fatten them only 

 twelve days. Put them in a pen and feed three times a day 

 cornmeal and beef scraps and a little bran. Keep them 

 quiet while fattening and don't scare them. Don't irritate 

 them in the least or they will not fatten. At ten weeks of 

 age they are ready for the market, just when the wings 

 reach the tail. Pick them dry, and it should be done before 

 <jold weather comes in October or before, as in cold weather 

 the feathers are hard to pick. 



If you want to pick them alive do so just before cold 

 weather comes, and never pick a goose unless the ends of 

 the feathers or quill is dry so no meat or blood is on the end 

 of quill. In the spring and early fall is the best time to pick 

 them. The best results are gotten when crossed, say a 

 Toulouse on a China, or Embden goose, or an Embden on a 

 China. They mature quicker and weigh much more. Green 

 young geese sell best when the Jews have their holy days. 

 A goslin will frequently bring fifteen cents per pound and a 

 goslin weighs twelve to fifteen pounds when fifteen weeks 

 old. 



TURKEYS. 



Here is where nature must be followed to be successful. 

 They are easy to raise if you know how, and if you don't 

 know how you will never make it pay. It is a password 

 among farmers that the turkey is hard to raise, they say 

 that if they get wet they die, they get lousy, their wings 

 get heavy, they get weak, fall over and die, or they get loose 

 yellow droppings and die. 



