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EMIJDKN OR BBEMEN GEESE. 



white breed of geese of unusual size, whose 

 weight, he supposed, would not much falf short 

 of twenty-five pounds each, providing they were 

 well-fed and managed. At that period a friend 

 of my father's the late Eben Rollins, of Boston 

 kept a correspondence with the house of Dal- 

 las and Co., in Bremen; and, at his request, 

 Mr. Rollins ordered, through that firm and on 

 my father's account, two ganders and four geese 

 of the breed mentioned by the stranger gentle- 

 man. The geese arrived to order in Boston, in 

 the month of October, 1821. 



" Having had the breed in question sent him 

 from Bremen, my father named them after that 

 place ; but English writers call this variety the 

 ' Embden geese.' It will be seen from what I 

 have stated above, that my father was the orig- 

 inal importer of this description, and therefore is 

 entitled to the credit of first introducing it to 



I the United States. It is certain that he had 

 the Bremen geese in his possession at least five 

 years prior to the time when Mr. James Sisson, 

 of Rhode Island, imported his. 



" Ever since my father imported the Bremen 

 geese he has kept them pure, and bred them so 

 to a feather no single instance having occurred 

 in which the slightest deterioration of character 

 could be observed. Invariably the produce has 

 been of the purest white the bill, legs, and feet 

 of a beautiful yellow. No solitary mark or spot 

 has crept out on the plumage of any one speci- 

 men, to shame the true distinction they deserve 

 of being a pure breed : like, with them, always 

 has produced like. 



" The original stock has never been out of 

 my father's possession ; nor has he ever crossed 

 it with any other kind since it was imported in 

 1821. 



