46 w. cook's turkey, goose, and pheasant book. 



after that time they begin to shed their feathers, but they 

 should be fed well on meal the last three weeks of their 

 existence. I have had them weigh 13 lbs. at 12 weeks old. 

 Stock geese I have had to turn the scale at 1 5 ^ lbs. at 1 2 

 weeks old, but if they can be got to weigh 9^ or 10 lbs. at 

 13 weeks old, that is very fair. 



I know many farmers make gd. and lod. per lb. of their 

 goslings and they are less trouble to rear than any other 

 variety of the feathered tribe I know of. After they are 

 two days old they will eat anything which is given them. 

 I have known geese to be turned out at four days old and 

 never have anything given them except the grass they eat, 

 but, of course, when they are reared in that way they never 

 turn out to be very large. If size is required they must be 

 fed on good nutritious food as well as grass. 



There is nothing so disappointing> when one goes to 

 market to buy dead geese as to find they have purchased a 

 tough old bird. Geese live to an immense age, and in 

 many cases old ones get killed in mistake for young ones 

 and are sent to market ; those who buy them find out their 

 error when it is too late. 



A gentleman I knew went once to a country town market 

 a few days before Christmas to buy a fine goose, at a little 

 place called Coleford, in Gloucestershire, and seeing a 

 young girl who had two splendid geese at the market, he 

 enquired the price : " ten shillings each " was the reply. My 

 friend said he only wanted one, he would give more for that, 

 but the girl said she could not separate them. 



The gentleman, seeing a friend of his in the market, asked 

 him if he could do with a goose and he said " by all means, 



