216 PROKLTS IN POULTRY. 
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cause we need grain to fatten them. With this variety, 
however, and the Embden, which matures early and ale 
tains a great weight also, it is different ; the goslings are 
heavy before they are fat, carry a good deal of flesh, and 
are tender and delicious early in the season, when simply 
grass-fed, or having had but little grain. 
Fig. 85.—EMBDEN GEESE. 
In breeding geese, the surplus stock of goslings is killed 
off every year. None need he saved for wintering and 
breeding, except it may be well to keep one or two fine 
geese to take the places of old birds killed or hurt by 
some accident. Geese lay regularly, brood and rear their 
goslings well for fifty to eighty years, and it is said grow 
