GOOSE RAISING. 
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is said to be a rather poor layer and is sometimes difficult to breed 
successfully in captivity. 
THE EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 
This is a small brightly colored goose kept for ornamental pur¬ 
poses and rarely seen in this country. It resembles the Wild goose 
in shape and weighs 2 pounds less in each class. The bill is 
purple or bluish red, and the 
legs and toes are reddish yel¬ 
low. The color of the plum¬ 
age of the back and body is 
gray and black, with the 
lower part of the body pale 
buff or yellow, penciled with 
black. The breast is chestnut 
and gray, and the tail is black. 
The wings are a glossy black 
with Avliite shoulders. 
GOOSE BREEDING. 
Practically all the geese in 
the country are raised in small 
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Fig. 4.—Brown Chinese gander. 
flocks on general farms (see figs. 7 and 8), and few if any farms are 
devoted entirely to raising geese. The fattening of geese, however, is 
conducted as a special business in the producing sections, in which case 
the geese are collected from general farms, usually over a large area, 
