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While green pasture is important for maintaining 

 old geese, it is indispensable food for young goslings. 

 They must have fresh, tender grass in abundance at all 

 times during the day, from the first day they eat to the 

 time they are well feathered and have grown their 

 wings. After that, those intended for market may be 

 penned and fed green stuff and grain, but those 

 intended for breeding should continue to have pasture 

 and free range. If a large flock is raised, quite a 

 pasture is needed to sustain them. It takes geese 

 almost as long to reach full development as it does 

 cattle or sheep, but they remain profitable for many 

 years. Yearling geese are very poor breeders, two-, 

 year-olds are better, and they only reach their best at 

 three years of age. 



If one wishes to make a start in keeping geese, 

 the best plan is to buy breeding stock early in the fall. 

 They must not only become accustomed to their new 

 quarters, but to each other, for geese do not mate 

 readily and if put together after January i will often 

 fail to breed that year. Old, well-mated geese of the 

 highest quality are the cheapest and most profitable 

 to buy. The best way to get the finest geese is to buy 

 young ones, and to order them before they are 

 hatched. Have the large early hatched specimens 

 selected for you and delivered early in the fall. They 

 must be kept at least one year without profit and two 

 jears before they will do their best, but in this way 

 one knows the age of his stock, and in the end will 

 ^et better results. 



MONEY IN GOOSE FARMING 



The breeding and growing of geese on a large 

 scale for market and egg purposes could undoubtedly 

 be made profitable if handled in a practical manner. 



