Birds The Goose 
CARE 
The goose that is laying should be given a quiet 
and safe nesting place for incubating. From ten 
to sixteen eggs are laid. The nest should be bedded 
with oat straw or other short, dry litter. The 
period of incubation is about thirty days. 
REFERENCES 
THE Pouttry Boor, H. Weir. 
Descriptions of geese, Binps THatT Hunt AND ARE HUNTED, 
Neltje Banchan. 
OvutTpooR Work, M. R. Miller. 
2 In Quest of Waptonk, the Wild, NorrHERN Traits, W. J. 
ong. 
The Decoy, in WaTCHERS OF THE TRAIL, and The Home- 
sickness of Kehonka, KINDRED OF THE WILD, C. G. D. Roberts. 
Pies Goose Ways, WHOosE Hog Is THE WILDERNESS, W. J. 
g. 
I hear the wild geese honking 
From out the misty night, 
A sound of moving armies, 
On-sweeping in their might; 
The river ice is drifting 
Beneath their northward flight. 
—John Burroughs. 
WILD GEESE 
November fields are brown below, the tattered clouds are gray, 
A stream of sunlight rifting through, as if affrighted fails. 
From high above, a leader’s call, that thrills the heart this day, 
A wild geese V, unequal armed, across the wild sky trails. 
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