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Title: Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935
Subjects: Poultry Pigeons Cage birds
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Fig. 152. Goslings grazing on a Rhode Island farm nears the end of his process of feeding, he simply increases theproportion of fat-forming material in the food and feeds all thatthe ducks will eat. The fattening of geese that have been grownon grass to make them of the quality that will bring the highestprice requires a change to a heavy grain diet. The farmers whogrow these geese could fatten them better than any one else andmake more profit on them, but few of these farmers are willingto give them the special attention that this requires. So largea part of the geese sold alive are thin that the men who boughtthem to dress for market long ago saw an opportunity to make
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175 176 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS a greater profit by fattening them before they were killed. Someof those who engaged in fattening geese were very successfuland made large profits. As they extended operations in thisline they required a great deal of land. Sometimes as manyas 15,000 geese are fattened on one farm in a season. Thefatteners buy in the early part of the summer from the farmerswho sell the green geese as soon as they are grown. As thesemake the finest geese for the table, and as the best demand forgeese comes at the holiday season in the winter, a large part ofthem are put in storage after being killed. After the green geeseare disposed of, the fatteners buy live geese shipped in fromdistant points, and have them ready to kill about the time whenthe demand for goose is good. While they are very profitable when everything goes well, fat-tening geese is a business attended by heavy risks. In buyingfrom many different sources a fattener may get some geese havinga contagious diseas

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