Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — POULTRY YARD. [ARTICLE]

POULTRY YARD.

Omnttn on the Farm. Any farmer who lives on a farm situated one quarter of a mile or more from neighbors, may keep a flock of geese with profit. If blessed with too near neighbors, the geese might tresspass upon their gardens or get into their bean patches or fields of grain when least expected. Geese are taught with no trouble where they must stay, and they will run in a pasture where there is plenty of water and grass, growing rapidly without other food. The goslings will do better if fed a littlo cornmeal, mixed into dough and salted every night and morning until fully feathored. After this they will got their own living. Geese may bo picked once In six weeks, beginning with the first of May. They should not be picked later than October. Goslings usually sell for $1 a head alivewhen three months old. If kept until, fall they will bring $1 and leave tho farmer the feathers, which sell for about fifty cents per pound. This is the estimate where no extra feed is used. If fed night and morning for a few weeks before killing them for market, tho geese would, of course, weigh more and sell at an advanced price. Many women make a business of raising goose for market, preferring them to lions, claiming that they get their money much more rapidly and with less trouble than by keeping hens.