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NEW ENGLAND FARiVlKR. 



Pph 1, 1826 



coiu.auK-ii ail lilt- constituents of the different spe-i will jasually be rendered abortive. Others say, 

 cies, precisely uie same as ulien the plants were one gamier to five geese. The nest shoiUI be 



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cultivated on their natural soils. 



Mangel wun.el. or white beet, 

 (hna cicla) produces upon a suita- 

 ble sou, or a .:eep rich ioam, on an 

 avBiiijje, iweiiiy -five tons* of green 

 fooa per acre — every pound weight ~ 

 ot whicli con iiins ti90 grains ofnu 

 tnlive inalter ; and, therefore, per lbs. 

 acre . . . - . 56000 



Carrots, (Oaucus carota) produce 

 upon a deep light loam, on an ave- 

 rage, eleven ions, every pound of 

 winch contains VoU grains of nutri- 

 tive matter . . - . 



Potatoes, (buianum tuberosum), 

 produce upon a fresh loain, ol in- 

 terineiiiale quality as to moisture 

 ami dryness, on an average, io tons 

 per acre, alfoiuing of nutritive niat- 

 ,ler per poi^im, ioOll grains - 



ihe common held, or white tur- 

 nip, ('iJj'ussua lapa var.jaffords from 

 a sandy loam, upon an average, per 

 aero, sixteen tons ol green food, a 

 pound oi which contains 32t> grains 

 of nutritive matter 



irry 

 pach 



Ins. 

 3120 



prepared as soon as the female begins to 

 straw in her bill. 'J'he number of 

 goose for sitting, should be abput twelve ■)r Ihir 

 teen. While silting, say some writers, the yoose 

 should be fed with corn and water, which mut be 

 placed near her. Loudon, however, says, "feed- 

 ing upon the nest is seldom required.'' l he gan- 

 der should, at this time have free access to ijruard 

 her. The nests in which these birds sit, ought to 

 be made of stiaw, and so constructed that ^he 

 eggs vvil! not roil out, as the sitting goose turns 

 her eggs every day durin;; the period of incuba 

 tion, which is said to be from twenty-seven to 

 24640 ''640 ^^"^y ^^y'^- Willich's 1. ncydopedia says, that, 

 "when the eggs are nearly hstche- , ii will be re- 

 quisite to break slightly the shell near I lie beak of 

 j the young goslin, as well for the puipo^e of ad- 

 ' mitting air, as to enable it to make iis way at the 

 proper time." We do not, however, find that any 

 other author recommenils this pr -lice, and as 

 rvild geese can have no assistance dl' the kind, we 

 conclude that goslins can. gener.illy speaking, 

 make their way into the world i.itlinut the pro- 

 posed manipulation. 



Mr. t obbett says, -that, "geese can be kept to 



33600 4800 



3.5R40 1638 3-dvantoge only where there are green commons, 



29120 



3440 



The Wwedisn turnip, or ruta baga 



(Brussita rupa var.j produces on a 



favorable soil, or a strong loam, on 



an average, 13 tons per acre, a 



pound weight of which afi'ords of 



nutrive matter 440 grains - 

 Cabbages, (lira.^sica nieracta var.) 



which delight in a rich strong loam, 



aU'ord 07 green lood, on an average 



per acre, 25 tons, every pouno of 



which contains 4y0 grains of nutii- 



live matter - - - - 56000 



Koiil rabi, Brassica oleracea var.J 



the produce from a soil similar to 



that lor cabbages or Sw.'dish tur- 

 nips, is on an aiierage, 14 tons per 

 acre, and affords of nutritive mat- 

 ter per pound 420 grains 



If a plant, thero.fiire, impoverish 

 proportion to the weight of vegetable substance 

 it produces on a given sjiace of ground, the fol- 

 low ina will be the order in which the plants just 

 me-ntioned exhaust the land. 

 Mangel wuTti;el, 2o ^ 

 Cabbages, 2.5 I 



advantage on turnips, cut in su.iili , i, ces, similar 

 Lo .lice, but not so large, and put into a trough of 

 water. Cobbett says, "when the young ones arc 

 hatched they should be kept in a warm place for 

 about four lajs, and fed on barley meal, [^probably 

 Iniiian meal is as good] mixed, if possible, with 

 milk; and then they will begin to g-ff^i . Water 

 ior ihem, or for the old ones to swim in, is by no 



means necessuri/, nor, perhaps evKT even ustful 



Or. hoa is it, that you see such fine docks of fine 

 geese all over Long Island, (in Anieriiaj where 

 there is scarcely such a thin^ as a pond or a run 

 of u ater ?" Water for geese to swim in, howev- 

 er, IS said by other writers, to be useful, if not in- 

 uispensiblo tu the welfare of geese, as it preserves 

 theni from vermin. 



"Geese are raised by grazimr, but to fat them, 

 something more is required. Corn of some sort, 

 or boiled iSwedish turnips. Some corn, and 

 some raw Swedish turnips, or carrots, or white 

 cabbages, or lettuce, makes the be.st fatting. The 

 modes that are resoiled to by the French for fat- 

 ling geese, nailing tliem down by their webs, and 

 other sorts of cruelty, are, I nupe, such as Eng- 

 lishmen will never think of They will get fat 

 enough without the nse of any of those unfeeling 

 means being employed. He w ho can deliberately 

 indict torture upon an animal in order to heighten 

 the pleasure his palate is to receive in eating it, 

 is an abuser of the authority whuh (jod has given 

 him, and is indeed a tyrant in his heart. Who 

 would Ihink himself safe, at the mercy of such a 



Mr. Lawrence is of opinion, that "poultry is an 

 article of luxury, for which the little farmer never 

 obtains an adequate price. He had better allow 

 his wife a certain sum for pin-money, than suffer 



and there they are easily kept — live to a very 



j great age — and are among the hardiest animals 



j in the world. \f well kept, a goose will lay a hun- 

 dred eggs in a year. 'I he Frem-h put their eggs 



; under large hens of common fowls, to each of 

 1830 which they give four or five eggs ; or under 

 turkeys, to which they give nine or ten goose- 

 eggs." _ 



Rearing. At first setting at liberty, the pastur- 

 age of the gooop should be liiuited, otherwise, if j her to keep these devourers." But, he continues, 

 allowed to range over an extensive common, the i "an exception must be made in favor of getse, 

 goslins will become crao^ped, and some of them: which will graze to advantage, and make much 

 will fall behind and be lost. Mowbray advises to good manure ; they are besides, useful in a farm- 

 destroy ail the hemlock and night shade in their yard for giving alarm by light." He recommends 

 range. As the young become pretty well ferther for feeding geese, chopped cabliatre. lettuce, or 



cd, they become also loo large to be brooded be- carrots, and oats, particularly when they set 



neath the mother's wing, and as they will then " Not to be sent out to gra/e too early, and always 



o..5/?n 1881 sleep in groups by her side, they must be .veil fed before turning out, lest they wander beyond 



.. . supplied with straw, v, hich they will convert into their stre'igth, which is the occasion of many be- 



^ " excellent manure. Being able, says Mowbray, to ing lost every year. A goose fattens well on oats, 



frequent the pond and range the common at large, in six w-eeks, littered down with clean straw : if 



the young geese will obtain their living, and few from the stubbles in two or three weeks. 



people, favorably situated, allow them any thing The Complete farmer, an F.nijiish work, says. 



more, excepting the: vetretahle produce of the gar- "if you would fatten sreese, you must shut them 



den. But it h is be> " his constant practice, al- up, when they are about a month old, and they 



ways to dispense o i o crate quantity of any solid will be fat in about a month more. Be sure to let 



Potatoes, 15 J>hGir lo eacli other with re 



Koid raid, 14 I s cct to weight of produce, 



Swedish Turnip, l:j | 

 Carrots, lij 



BOSTON, PUIUAY, FLB. 



White Tuniip, . 16 j The proporlions which they corn or pulse at han. , to the flocks of store geese, them have always by them.in a sma'l rack some fine 



both morning and evenioL'. on their going out, and hay, which will much hasten their fatting. But 

 their return, together, in th<i evening more espe- for fatting older geese it is commonly clone when 

 cialiy, with such nrecns as chance to be at com- they are about six months old. or soon after har- 

 ruand ; cabbage, mangel \yurtzel leaves, lucerne, vest, when they have been in stubble fields, from 

 tares, aijd occasiori.illy sliced carrots. By full which ood some kill them, which is a good way. 

 keeping his geese ueie ever in a fleshy state, and But those who are desirous of having them very 

 attained a large size ; the young ones were also fat, shut them up for a fortnicrht or three weeks, 

 forward and valu.d.le hree in^.' stock. Geese man- and feed them with oats, split peas, barley meal, 

 aged on the above mode, will be speec'ily fattened or ground malt mixed with milk. But the best 

 green ; that is, at a month or six weeks old, or thing to fatten them with, is malt, mixed with 

 after the run of the corn stubbles. Two or three beer. You must, however, observe in fattening 

 weeks after the latter, must be sufficient to make all sorts of water-fowl, that they usually sit with 

 hem thoroughly fat. A goose, fattened entirely their bills upon their rumps, whore they suck out 

 on the stubbles, is to be preferred to any Other ; the greater part of the moisture and fatness, at 

 "* I have found this variety l«s nutriiious and less hardy than | since an over-fatted goose is too much in the oil- a small bunch of feathers, which you will find 

 the pink or ligla rod maaeel wuri/el. Seveniy-eighi thousand cake and grease-tub style, to admit even the ideas standing upright on their rumps, and alw.iys tnoist. 

 four hundred and lorty-eiglil pounds of the pink kind were pro- '• ^r jlelicacy, tender firmness, or true flavor. Lou- with which they trim their feathers, which rendws 

 duced, in tH'i.',, upon one aero and fourteen iwrchcs ot farm i , ,.•'., ,' ,,-,., -i , ,• 



land in Phdadcipiiia coiiaiv.— jtm. iiJ. |rfo!i. U IS said, moreover, that geesc may be ted to them more oily and sir 



OIV REAiltNG AiSJD MANA^iti-^U cUKLsiii. 

 Breeding, (jeese, in general, breed only once 

 a year ; but, sometimes twice, if well kept. Three 

 of these birds, it is said, should be allotted to one I *' 

 gander, for if the number be increased, tne eggs 



lippery than the feathers of 



