AUGUST 28, 1875.] 
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coldest weather, and also it is better for the goslings | 
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y ment of le oan or ge aes 
men's homesteads is coh at the usually greater 
suécess of the later broods, it seems to point to the 
season when some degree of warmth has returned as 
being the most desirable; and as far as my own expe- 
rience goes, I would let the first sittings be as late as 
the circumstances of the case permitted, and would 
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life” es being shot in the leg through the side of the 
| bestw ne tab, Ww as not a mere flight of fancy, and 
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goose may be made to lay as ni by being always 
€: in ай ey egg has been pro 
s the nests are айгы. side by side, each 
in a "itle w ooden pen іп а 
place close to 
Pier prai £o off the nest daily without requiring 
o be di , and, after ta er swim and the 
food, whi Eh should be placed conveniently ior her, 
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| the operator it is as we to carry the egg out of sight 
of the aggrieved par 
During the un E incubation, the tempers 
Ф а geese «t LE supi HSE agi! trouble- 
to al AA with the 
| A and if be are in i a а of their 
will return to the eggs in good time, and give them | 
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put aside the two or three first eggs laid by each goose 
as less likely to hatch properly than the others. 
For domestic supply one gander, and three, but at 
the most not more then four, , geese would probably be 
his ‹ stock, to begin with, birds which he can be certain 
have succeéded well before. The goose lays and sits 
— for мөт successive years, sequently it is of 
to have her in Бае first you uth, qr 
trouble. or rather greater expense of selecting the w 
wn birds wil be well repaid in ea 
future crediti 
— When the goose is about to шу, a = should be 
ished to sit, 
own 
Mansie Wauch’s goose, that was made *' a laimeter for 
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caer a 
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ys safety with their 
motion incident first hatch, 
own ] 
«rie дөр must set in a С а 
сага freshly cut turf is cial, Pee 
the straw of which the nest is com some 
natural arrangement, and the geese 
ir food and bath, 
ey 
do not require as m the 
| shell as other poultry, still, if possible, this up is 
| formed as gent! 
сак pon if done at all, d be per- 
best left to № sho 
as possible ; and for the comfort of 
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е баве 3 and of the gander, who, as matter of course, 
uard during the whole period, in the most 
eio e mood possible, the matter becomes so 
intolerable that it is as well to instil proper behaviour 
gin wi Once caching the gan > 
аз and giving him a gentle shaki his 
dignity and will probably 25 the 2 A and 
the pe al and ear-split- 
cig ae в common where order is not 
insisted on thr 
When the goslings are hatched, they may ы turned 
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and lost. 
The goslings, however, ater the fi est (ew ays shonli е 
, will go 
and the young, · ar de. str 
ed swimming, wi "m M a 
be ares with а of c 
be alowed water to in, set in 
and with any chill jaken Uf ^ad if well supplied P 
plenty of proper food will probably thrive without 
drawbacks. 
The diet especially recommended at first, after the - 
eriod immediately succeeding hatching, whe food 
is unnecessary, i E something soft, as curd, bread- 
е boiled Rice, boiled Potatos, barley-meal-and- 
er stirred into a thick but still fluid mass, &c., and 
