Show colored egyptian geese the colored egyptian geese are re carded as being the most beautiful ot all the breeds 0 geese they are not yet extensively bred in this country and are found chiefly in the pens of the fanciers they are known quite widely as the nile geese the goose is tall and slender and has a better appearance than any other kind tho difficulty of breeding it in confinement Is very great unless the males are kept separate the males will fight each other to the death it Is thus necessary that each male have a sep arate pen these geese have medium sized beads bills of medium length and small necks the wings are long and have horny spurs in front the color ot the head is black and gray the bill Is purple or bluish red the eyes are orange the standard weight of the male is 15 pounds and of the female 12 pounds young ganders weigh 12 pounds and young geese 9 pounds washing fowls recently I 1 purchased a number of fowls that had been brought up on a city lot they were white leghorns and had been kept in a locality where there was much smoke from soft coal in addition they had been confined on a small area and had paddled the ground into mud their plumage was gray and black with smoke and the spattering from the rains to which they had been exposed they had also become very dirty from the mud in which they had been compelled to walk they were disposed of at a sale and presented such a lamentable appearance on the day of sale that no one wanted them every one seemed to think them scrubs of the scrubs but I 1 did not I 1 knew from their combs that they were pure bred but that they had not been given a chance to make their toilets for some time I 1 bid a low price tor them about a meat price and got them I 1 took them home and subjected them to washing I 1 used a strong lot of soap suds and worked the soap into and un der their feathers I 1 found they had some body lice on them and suspected that they might be harboring mites so I 1 worked in the soap good and hard it took a long time to wash each fowl but when I 1 had washed them you should have seen them they fairly shone and when I 1 turned them out onto our green lawn they were a pretty sight they showed by every movement that they appreciated the cleaning up I 1 find in washing fowls one should be careful and do a thor ough job especially if the birds have had lice every louse can be disposed of it the washing Is thorough enough for some reason or other lice do not like soap sophia belknap alien co ind in farmers review one of many breeds the man that wants to gain a reau tation tor purity of stock will find it to his advantage to breed but a single breed of birds the man that pays three or dollars for a sitting of eggs wants to know that his eggs are pure and he does not feel certain of this if all kinds of birds are running over the farm hired help Is not al ways interested and it the birds happen to get together through the carelessness of the hired man he Is not likely to report the matter to his cm it he did the owner could not afford to put a whole flock of birds out of service because they had accident ally been running together tor a few hours the buyer knows this and prefers to deal with the man that has but one good breed and that the only one kept on the farm the barme that Is interested in fowls from an aduca or standpoint may keep as many as he likes tor he is not posing as a producer of eggs strictly true to name |