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Identifier: turkeysducksgees00nour (find matches)
Title: Turkeys, ducks, and geese
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Nourse, H. A. (Harold Alvah), 1875-
Subjects: Turkeys Ducks Geese
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Webb Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ot advisable, how-ever, to have it more than twelve feet wide as a wider shedwill not dry out quickly when warmed by the suns rays. Such a shed may be built of very cheap lumber andcovered with tar paper, or may be made more lasting bycovering it with some brand of prepared roofing. The frontof this shed may be closed with curtains of heavy cottoncloth. These curtains may be tacked on frames which canbe made to swing open like doors on hinges, or swing upinside the shed when they mav be hooked to the undersideof the roof. The writer is inclined to favor making themto swing open like doors, when they may be held open byhecks attached to posts driven in the ground. The main objection to those which swing up inside theshed is that dust accumulates on them and makes them lessable to admit light and air. These doors may be swung openin fair weather and need be closed only at night, in severeweather and during storms which would otherwise beat inand make the interior damp and uncomfortable.
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The Pride of the Flock. SUCCESS WITH GEESE, Goose Culture Requires Neither Large Capital Nor ExpensiveEquipment—The Leading Breeds—Selecting, Mat-ing and Feeding the Breeders—Hatching,Brooding and Care of theYoung. By Geo. H. Pollard. Under favorable conditions no poultry is more prof-itable than geese. Yet they are sadly neglected and thegreat bulk of those sohl and consumed in the big cities andtowns are produced in the West, and most of them are soproduced that they are hardly calculated to inspire a decentrespect for the good qualities of the goose family as asource of desirable food supply. The necessary require-ments for successful goose culture are few and simple andare readily provided on most farms, and on a good many vil-lage places. The most essential is a good grass range suffi-cient in extent to furnish plenty of green grass for the geeseand goslings. The breeding geese will do best where thereis more or less low, wet land and where pools or streamsare accessible. T

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