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supplied with as many oats as she could eat, besides a of the bill. These peculiarities are hereditarily | to let the — 45 =. Se 
potatoes, and bages, gs larger than transmitted, but do not amount to more than or no litter ; thus independent of h» they needed 
ordinary ; one of them (with a double yolk) weighed | varieties, Bat the White China Goose, if it be not spe- | for the sta bien, i might keep as man 
7} 0z., nearly half a _— I need hardly say that | cifically Ainet, is a variety so decidedly marked as to as he could feed; in fact the straw saved — ae 
double 2 eggs are very rare, except among birds demand a separate notice. helped to make out the food. And beside 
that ong domesticated. The male is almost as much 9 larger erops and straw, he bought Linseed cake, whi Breen 
Another soe is their deficient power of flight com- than the female as the Musk-Drake n comparison it quickened the fa aye of his entitle r 
pared with the rest of their co congeners, owing to the with his mate. He is much inclined to libertine wander- quality of his dung. And by this means he p the 
— proportionate size of their bodies ies, * The common ings, without, however, neglecting to pay proper atten- — in three years, — * bi 
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from China. Indeed of all Geese this is the worst 2 oa emises, they are sure to disagree : one of the two had | pumped up to water the Rye-grass, and b it to ve 
There is no occasion to pinion ‘hem. While the Canada | better be got rid of. Both male and female are, per- | cut four or five times a year, yielding altogeth, ah be 
Goose thinks little of a p= from the North Pole or | haps, the most * of all Geese: at night the least 50 tons per acre, weighed green, equal to 10 or 12 tons 
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n, while the — — Goose | footfall or motion in their neighbourhood is ein to | of hay. 
s us occasional — m Africa, while the merry call forth their clanging and resonant trumpetings. But there i pi an . peculiarity in his 
Titile Laughing Goose, if tamed a and a liowed ee — of its This, to a lone country house, * an — and a | ment ot the manage. 
wings, is almost as much at ease in the air as a Pigeon, | protection, Any fowl-stealer would be stunned with Dur Leggs mer he turns up a good d 
the China Goose can hardly manage to werd across 4 their din before he captured them alive, and the family clay 2 — ge urns it in heaps 
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day I shall fly away? Said the Wild Goose to the Tame | the 1 y of hearers, aad has caused 2 . be re- | rough sheds (run up by his own labourers), and 
one, ‘I shall fly away on such a day, if it be the will of | linquished by many amateurs. One ned to a layer of the drained dung (free 
Allah.“ At the appointed time the Wild Goose performed | address them as O'Connell did the ede "fellow Sane. then a second layer of burnt clay, and 
her year! migration: the Tame Goose cannot fly to this who was interru 3 his speech, “I wish you had a dung, and so on 3 As there are d 
day.” If China, instead of Egypt, had Eron the | hot potato in a auth. Or they might take a * — there is time for the burnt clay to absorb 
above fable, we should believe that the Anas cycniides | lesson from Alian's ‘esis —=“ OÍ de gives arte the rich drainings of the dung, and f 
inly boastful 7b Tavpov TÒ tpos de Sol Toùs derovs, Kal & s ye | moisture to evaporate, before the next layer comes op: 
he en of e eggs laid by these birds has led dvr AlOov évdandyres, iva pà KÀ duoin, å beror v iuba- so that, with proper turning over, it gradually becomes 
some persons to imagine that, like Guinea-fowls, they | Adyres oplot oTópov, ðiarérovrat Tw kal t oùs | quite peen and fit to spread out broadcast, 
were inexhaustible, so that when at last the Goose did | derobs rà ro Taryn diadravOdvouc Book 5 7, Chap. turn er like lime 
make her nest in earnest (which may be known by 9 29. “The geese, when shifting 8 Mount Taurus, — — with the s@M, as in fact to 
reserved ſor the poor thing to sit upon. The best plan stone in its mouth, that they may not ery. out, as if tive. And the estate now produces, as above e , 
is to date the eggs with a pencil, as they are laid, and putting a gag upon ’ themselv ves, fly through their course | more manure than it consumes. 
to consume only those which are more than three in silence, and in this manner generally quite escape the This is not mere scientific speculation. Here we have 
weeks old. They are usually very late with their broods, | notice of the eagles.” We, however, prefer that our | the actual E mE of 95 acres, raised in three years 
but will rear them well enough if they are allowed to | geese should silence themselves with grass and corn. from 48 bushels Wheat, and 40 ditto Beans to 1600 
take their own time, and do it after their own manner. | The oe of the China goose are somewhat less than boi Wheat ; and from 1 dairy cows wi i 
i thos i calves, cheese and butter, to 40 head of fat cattle, 100 — 
of sitting, but she has thick shell, white, but aligns! y tinged with yellow at the | fat cheep, and 80 fat pigs; so that, if even one quarter 
i n aller en oslings when first hatched are | of our tillage land was pity ia into this condition, our 
I doubt not she will again this season. When the fit usually very strong. They are of a dirty green, like | Wheat produce would be doubled; ea should be ex. 
comes, she wi e R of her milk-pan, which | the colour produced by mixing Indian ink and yellow porters instead of importers a all 
stands in a large boarded coop like a dog-kennel. | ochre, with darker perae bere and there. The le s would be in full emplo 
Once duly enthroned there, — will maintain her seat and feet are lead colour, but afterwards change to But it will be objected that such a result requires not 
with proper perseverance and tenacity. A neighbour | dull red. If there is any iiig like good pasjurage for only skill and exertion, but a large capital and heavy — 
disearded his China Goose because she was always found | them they require no further attention than what their expense of labour. This is true; “bat not really an d- 
standing over her eggs, instead of sitting upon them. | parents will afford them. After a time a little gre ain jection, Thereis, in fact, no more objectionable prae i 
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always found 3 eady sitters when they once begin | do not bear being shut up to fatten so well as common | as s hundreds ean t stify. And on the article of labour, — 
in earnest, and exemplary parents. e Goose on Geese, and therefore those destined for the table are the | Mr. E wa 
leaving her nest to ar covers her eggs carefully, Any | better for -feedi we be couldaave „ ia 
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rmitted to be disturbed by dogs, &c. ; if she be suf- dozen years. I cannot verify = fact, as my own expe- in hi i 
: ty of the Jabourers in his parish 
ered to steal a nest, and ait on more than she can | rience with these bi rds extends only to about six years, so danke ot ‘of his one and the management of 
cover—things will go wrong. The great number of but it is quite in opposition to the lon naay ascribed to i 
eggs laid may perhaps cause an uncertainty that each | other Geese. Hybrids between them and the common ay. 8 — take no more than 
is properly fecundated Shin, se G lifie ; the second or third cross is much | gan afford to — properly, they would have less 
sitting a fortnight, was driven fı he prized „ particularly for their ganders: | anxiety and m comfort ; 3 and the land and the 
tted to get loose; the eggs were and y flocks the blo the China Goose 2 
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eaten, shells and all, and the poor bird expressed her often be traced by the more erect gait of the birds i ee woul advance in produce r 
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agon mind bot her eries and actions. After | companied by a faint stripe down the back of the neck. — ' 
she became a little calm, her n as remade and sup- With th Whi er they also breed e ‘Hom a ondence. a 
plied with fresh eggs. She continued to sit for three | In the very clear and useful * Manual of British Ver. sari tage eee agree 
weeks longer, as well as could be. At the end of the tebrate Animals,“ by the Rev. Leonard Pigs te this ee F at? ve “isa I little sba u 
usual period of five weeks she gave up her task as use- | bird is recorded as Cygnus Guineensis, or Swan, — beer bye ce ag my Wheat 
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— and we unfortunately Knew no langunge by which 85 N —— Se he, y = sA se oe 175 560 “added, That 3 3 aie 80 ere since, 4 
ä k ic ative country somewhat doubt W I wrote it, it 
we could persuade her that if she would only persevere ublished on the 19th Augus 
r another fortn eee eee ee al the opinion of myself and of a gentleman 
rake away me F . MR. HUX TABLES FARM. ces t 1 slate gros e my 
These are annoying cases to practical ornitho- Havine had an oppona ty, the summer before last, | year was equal, if not better, than that w 
trophists. But even here the difficulty need not have of visiting some of the best cultivated farms in this last year ; but now my opinion is that both he 
been insurmountable ; where there s a will there’s bu] H — ei the 8 there was one, that of | self ‘may have rather overrated the yield at 6 
se i the 8 rit 3 Shaftesbury, that had a re- an acre; but I _ still decidedly of opinion that * 
a way. A y old couple the misfortune to arkabli 5 7 
have their sitting Goose killed in one of her daily pro- whi h $: “prent “hea aps of 4 lying about, have more than 5 quarters. I wish to state? 
a few days before the goslings were ready to wh ents a wee e eee said he hardly knew part of my Wheat we drilled and a part 
leave the shell. 888 done! The 1 e land had sir dy become so and that the dibbed was much the better 
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whic which was dibbed by hand only a 
ñ an quarters or 10 bags per acre per ish it to be borne in 
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or hth old indy took her traf the gos a e my prose Now compare this with cur Devonshire pro- | also pe quants an is ay third crop of Wheat in 
safely hatched uce, which I think will average very little above 10| on the same land; and chat should my 
The prevailing colour of the plumage of the China baga u per acre once in five years. If so, Mr. | not aier 10 coo 901855 an acre, though 
is a brown, which has aptly been compared to a Wheat as but it will, in three succeeding cro 
eolour of w The different shades are very har- ei har h and yet bas increased in richness so shall have grown full 33 coombs, or 
moniously blended, and are well relieved by the black fen t sar e has actually a ate e de te manure.\ of fine Wheat an acre, and from a 
tuberculated bill, and the pure white of the + must = interesting to our farmers to know how this of seed for each crop than, believe, was © 
Their movements on the water are graceful and swan. | 8 
Th thet sed in this also 
like. It is delightful to see them on a fine day in spring e farm is about 95 acres; when hetook it it was a the gen average of yield over the seed sown 
lashing the water, diving, — over through n Meen stih. e TO aya cres arable, carrying 14 dairy | out England, for one Wheat crop in every © 
fun, and playing all sorts of antics. Slight varia cows, growing:48 bushels of Wheat and 40 . oes not exceed nine- ſold, whereas my di 
Occur in the colour of the sen and lege, som no havia and employing three or four hands. Tt now produces | year will yield, 1 doubt not, full 176-f0 fold. Now, m 
them dull orange, othe black’ Š delicate fi fringa | 1600 bushels of Wheat yearly ; fattens 40 head of cattle are facts admitting of demonstrative proof, I 
of white feat ＋ ionally seen at the 12 la ling calves), 100 sheep, and 80 Pigs ; ; and keeps lenge the diecast of shallow ee 
7 dre. labourers at work the r mak Reni 3 mst ing, and thick seeding to do likewise by 
ing of the effect of domestication on | was quickly made. Five years 8 cess! 
the re of nps — the increased dimen wa i ey can. I recommend 
d the d 1 vor out of work, he 8 up * land of W fter Wheat? By no means, 
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r of their bod yaron altered to suit | 10 purpose of giving them employment ; drained it 
r Babita change; they lose “the | levelled the hedges (all but the 8 and nae 
er which, hein x 755 pres gi ioe burned the surface, and then tried how much stock a 
tnd is progeny ove tho power Atter ud Keep; to raise the land to the highest fertility. | to the soil than is caused by the ordinary 1 
Face.” — The Domes- ar many contrivances he found that t by flooring his cropping. But on this subject I must WrU Sn 
i houses w a little apart, | day ; 1 now merely sda, Cink og OTE 2 
