l^o Money in Broilers and Squabs. 



when such removal is necessary, or when a beginning is to be made 

 in the keeping of geese, breeding birds should be placed in their new 

 quarters some weeks before the laying season begins, or a good 

 number of fertile eggs will probably not be obtained. 



Old geese, changed from their home surroundings to a new 

 locality, will seldom do as well the first season as afterwards, unless, 

 perhaps, the change has been made in the summer, after the close 

 of the breeding season. 



By arranging with some goose breeder at the early part of the 

 season — May or June — breeding stock can be selected from the 

 number raised during the season, and in that way better birds ob- 

 tained than later in the season. 



If the young geese can be brought to their new home in the 

 autumn they will become well accustomed to their surroundings 

 and feel at home before spring, and there will usually be no difficul- 

 ty in mating. 



A piece of low swamp ground in which pond holes exist, or 

 may be artificially made, is an excellent place for geese, and when 

 a piece of dry upland can be also utilized for the same flock, it inakes 

 an ideal location. 



In purchasing geese in the market, the Jews, for some reason, 

 always look for a bird with a yellow or orange bill, and a large 

 wholesale poultry breeder states that it is almost impossible to sell 

 a Jew a black-billed goose so long as he can find one having a light 

 colored bill. 



In handling a goose, it should always be taken by the neck, and 

 when lifted from the ground the body should be turned with the 

 back toward the person handling it. In that position it cannot 

 strike, and will remain quiet and docile. The body can be partly 

 supported by seizing the first joint of the wing with one hand. If 

 the goose is held facing one, it will strike hard blows with its wings 

 or scratch with its feet. 



Breeding Season. 



It takes 30 days to hatch the goose egg. 



A goose covers her eggs with the nest material. 



Geese seldom become broody the first year. 



A goose should average 20 goslings in a year. 



Geese begin laying late in January, or early in February. 



Geese cannot be profitably hatched and reared artificially. 



Some breeders wash the eggs if covered with mud, while others 

 do not. 



A good sized hen will cover five eggs, a goose from 9 to 13 

 eggs. 



The goose will lay from 10 to 15 eggs and then sit diligently on 

 them and seldom fails to bring off a good brood. 



A writer in an exchange places the cost from hatching to time 

 of maturity, at from 50 cents to 75 cents per head. 



Goslings well hatched are seldom lost, except through accident 

 or exposure to hard storms while still very young. 



