of Time Brooding is Necessary--Artificial
Brooding--General Care of Growing Goslings--Feeding the
Goslings--Percentage of Goslings Raised--Rapidity of
Growth--Diseases.
XIV. Fattening and Marketing Geese 187
Classes of Geese Marketed--Markets and Prices--Prejudice
Against Roast Goose--Methods of Fattening Geese for
Market--Pen Fattening--Noodling Geese--Methods Used on
Fattening Farms--Selling Geese
Alive--Killing--Picking--Packing for Shipment--Saving the
Feathers--Plucking Live Geese for their Feathers.
Index 215

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece. Water Yards and Ducklings.
1. Mule Ducks and Blue Swedish Ducks 10
2. Mallard Ducks 11
3. Goose, Duck and Hen Eggs 18
4. Young Pekins for Breeders and Aylesbury Drake 19
5. Rouen Drake and Black East India Ducks 24
6. Rouen Drake in Summer Plumage and Rouen Duck 25
7. Cayuga Ducks 26
8. Gray Call Ducks 27
9. White Call Ducks 28
10. Colored Muscovy Drake and White Muscovy Drake 29
11. Crested White Drake and Young White Muscovy
Showing Black on Head 32
12. Wing of Blue Swedish Duck 33
13. Pair of Buff Ducks 36
14. Penciled Runner Drake and White Runner Drake 37
15. Methods of Carrying Ducks 40
16. Power Feed Mixer 41
17. Duck Houses 58
18. House for Breeding Ducks 59
19. Another Type of Breeding House 62
20. Feeding the Breeders 63
21. Interior of Breeding House 74
22. Incubator Cellar 75
23. Interior of No. 1 Brooder House 82
24. Watering Arrangement in Broo