Show GRAZING GROUND FOR GEESE A lot let of pasturage Is heeded for these birds of christmas says an english writer the goose Is not commonly regarded as a cousin to the cow yet one Is ii about as persistent a grazer as the other there are farmers who wont boni turn geese into a meadow because they think the geese make so cleat clean a sweep pt the pasturage that it Is spoiled for cattle an english authority says that geese do not eat an excessive quantity tir of herbage it if the gog goslinge goslings go slings lings arp are killed off the grass at the green stage or are kept till after harvest and finished on the stubble As tor for the common belief that geese damage the pasturage the same writer says saya that they destroy mainly the tuberous roots of tho a weed which could well be spared nowadays in ringland england the green goose or more correctly the go gosling alina la Is more generally esteemed than the tat fat goose of christmas says the queen and the lingering regard for tho the bird la Is perhaps more sentimental than actual the poul herern tell us that go slings are in sea eon con from april to october but from the point of view of the he english producer it must be admitted that it a home reared gosling of satisfying proportions Is in a comparatively rara avis in 1 the be earlier months and that from july to october would wore more accurate ly describe the english season |