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ever material is used should be removed and re- 

 placed before it becomes foul. 



From what has been said, it may be correctly in- 

 ferred that geese are kept in much smaller numbers 

 than chickens or even turkeys, yet they reach the 

 market in considerable quantities, especially in the 

 western states. Along the Atlantic seaboard there 

 are some farms where goose growing is made a 

 specialty. Except for these farms there are very 

 few places where geese are raised extensively. The 

 great majority of market geese are raised in small 

 numbers on ordinary farms, which, as a rule, still 

 cling to flocks of inferior breeding. Though the 

 market demand is by no means as great as for the 

 other three great classes of poultry, yet this de- 

 mand is not nearly met by the supply of stock. 

 For this reason anyone situated near a good market 

 and provided with a favorable site for goose grow- 

 ing should embrace his opportunity to supply this 

 demand, but no desire for making money should 

 tempt anyone not supplied with good grazing 

 ground to begin goose growing, because while he 

 may succeed in raising the geese he could not com- 

 pete with farmers who have better facilities. 



PROFITS IN GOOSE GROWING 



As to the amount of money that can be made 

 from geese, much, of course, depends upon the 

 market. Growers calculate that geese pay propor- 

 tionately better than ducks, but since they cannot 

 be grown in such large quantities nor by such 

 machine methods the facilities sooner reach their 

 profitable limit. The cost of producing young geese 

 for market is estimated at less than lo cents a 

 pound, even when the goslings are fed heavily for 



