DOMESTIC WATER FOWL — GEESE. 
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at a distance, so as to be out of the hearing of the old 
or store Geese. 
“ Besides the benefits that may be derived from Geese 
in the feathers and the birds as food, it seems not im- 
probable, but that they might be made to produce a con- 
siderable advantage in the way of manure, if managed 
under a system of constant littering with straw, fern, 
or some other substance of the same kind, as from the 
great quantity of grass they consume, the discharge in 
the night is very considerable.” 
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