GRIT FOR GEESE. 



Geese need grit— No grit : bad digestion— Crit and no grit : nothing 

 compensates for loss of this necessary article. 



/^^ EESE are domestic birds, and are a variety which 

 ^^ range a long way in search of all kinds of grit to 

 digest their food. If they cannot get it on the surface 

 of the ground, they will put their bill or beak in the banks, 

 ditches or anywhere where it is to be found. Grit is as 

 necessary for geese as it is for any other variety of the 

 feathered tribes, though many people never give this 

 subject a thought. As geese feed principally upon grass 

 they usually consider it is not necessary. 



This is altogether a wrong idea. Where a number of 

 geese have been penned out in a grass field, where there is 

 scarcely any grit to be found, I have often noticed the 

 grass passed through the geese undigested as well as the 

 grain, especially oats. It is just as necessary for geese 

 as it is for turkeys, pheasants and fowls. I find when 



