DUCKS AND GEESE 



into which three separate decks are built to accom- 

 modate them. From 1200 to 1400 geese can be 

 loaded into a car thus arranged. The journey usu- 

 ally takes about 5 or 6 days and some f atteners send 

 a man along with the car to feed and water the 

 geese 2 or 3 times during the trip. If a man does 

 not accompany the car, buckets of corn should be 

 placed in the car for feed and some potatoes should 

 also be supplied as these will serve in place of drink- 

 ing water. If the car is not subjected to unusual de- 

 lay, the geese should come through in good shape, 

 but if much delayed there may be 25 to 100 geese 

 dead when the car arrives at its destination. 



When the car arrives at the end of its journey, 

 the geese are unloaded and driven to the farm where 

 they are turned into the fields together in a large 

 flock. The fields in which they are thus kept should 

 have a supply of growing green feed or grass and a 

 good supply of fresh drinking water. They are kept 

 here until they are wanted for the fattening pens 

 which may be from a week to 20 days after their 

 arrival at the farm. While in this large supply flock 

 they are fed on com and grass which they can get 

 for themselves. 



Summer Geese to be fattened are placed only 

 about 50 in a pen or enclosure; and are provided 

 with a few boards set on posts to protect them from 

 the hot sun. The later geese are fattened in lots of 

 3 or 4 hundred or even more, depending upon how 

 many pickers are available to be kept busy. It is 



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