flocks kept on general farms. For this reason a 

 chapter has been added dealing with duck raising 

 on the farm, and attention is here called to the fact 

 that most of the information given under commer- 

 cial duck raising can be readily adapted to use in 

 connection with the farm flock. 



Detailed, complete information on goose raising 

 is even more fragmentary than is the case with 

 ducks. Yet there is a fine opportunity to rear a few 

 geese at a profit on many farms, and the need and 

 call for information is quite general. It is for this 

 reason that a section of this book has been devoted 

 to goose raising and in that section all the good re- 

 liable information available on the subject is given. 

 The special attention of the women of the farm is 

 directed to the opportunity which goose raising of- 

 fers to make a good profit on a small side line with 

 the minumum of initial investment and of labor. 



The greatest care has been taken to make the in- 

 formation on both duck and goose raising as com- 

 plete and clear as possible. However, the authors 

 appreciate the unlimited value of good illustrations 

 in making clear methods and operations which are 

 more difficult to grasp from a word description, and 

 have therefore assembled a set of illustrations for 

 this book, the completeness and excellence of which 

 have never before been approached in any book on 

 the subject. The illustrations alone are an educa- 

 tion. 



In preparing and presenting this book to the pub- 

 lic, the authors take pleasure in acknowledging 



