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Show breeding of Geese. -As 1 have been a breeder of fancy 1 . poultry for a number of years, esps . . dally tho P.mhdcn geese, I think I know something ataiut the breeding of the snme. Got1' are a profitable '1 t fowl on the farm. They require less ) ;: grain than any other kind of poultry. ' except In laying season.' when thoy ' i . ' . should have nlenty of gras and water and also a liberal supply of different r kinds of grain. I set my goose eggs , under chickens and when they begin to batch they should be watched and 1 taknn out of the nest as fast as they are dry and kepi In a warm place until un-til all are out and dry, as thoy are very helpless little mushy things the V first day or two. Put the hen and goslings In a grassy spot with a coop to shut them up In nights. Thoy aro very easily raised and are not subject to disease. I feed the goslings corn j bread until they are large onovjth to J eat corn. They can be fed meal after I they are two or throe weeks old. Keep ! them where they can get plenty of r grass and water and you will be surprised sur-prised to see how they will grow. ICnrly goslings can bo picked several times In the fall, but It la wicked to rob them of their clothing In cold weather. The laying geese should not be picked In laying season, it you ; want eggs. Ono gander with two ! hen geese Is all that la required, but If you have as many ganders aa lay- j In geese It will bo all right. They ' mnto off somo Hmo In Fobruary. Homo gandera will takn one goose and 1 some will take two If there are more geese than gandera. About Ihe first , of March I make nests for them In 1 I straw laying It In bunches near some j fence or building. They will make J their own nests and begin to lay about the loth of March, that la, the , Kmbden does, and I raise no other kind and have no desire to fur thoy I gut so largo and have so many snow j r. - whlto feathers. Mrs. John W. Dunn, j '.; Wella County, Indiana, In Farmers' j Review. How Many Varieties of Corn. J Berently a man that had attended a good many farmers' Institutes expressed ex-pressed It as his belief that we have i many breeds of corn. Ho thought It i would bo a gisid Idea to hold a con- j gross of corn growers and decide on two varieties, one yellow and the other whlto, and then to advise the i farmers to discard all other varieties and atlck to the growing of thoee two varletloa or to one of the varieties. Wo. 4ooht It the alt notion would be Improved by such a aiova. Tha development devel-opment of corn varieties Is bound to go on under the same stimulus that haa given us more than 2.000 varlotlea of apples, a few of which aro really good. Tho fuct Is that at present we know very little about tho corn plant as to ' adaptability of different varieties to different situations. Doubtless we will llnd that thero are great differences differ-ences In thla regard. We have yet to fit our vurleuoa to our localities. Wo will supisise that the congress named waa held and lhat lloona County White and limning were selected se-lected as the varlotlea to be grown. Then what about tha very large stretch of country In the North that la growing only flint corn and can grow only flint corn, as It Is too cold for the development of the dent varieties? va-rieties? It Is evident that the season differs greatly In length In various places and that the corn variety that will do best In a certain locality must' be regulated to some extent by the time It takes to roach maturity after the ground geta warm enough to sprout the seed. There la .so a great difference In moisture requirements 1 of different varieties, and this must ! also count for much In the developing of now varieties. No Hurry to Pasture. At thla tlmo of year tha dairyman Is looking at his pasluros expectantly expectant-ly for the first appearance of green grass In enough quantity to allow him to turn out his cows with soma chance of them getting a fair part of their living. The temptation to turn out the cowa early should bo ro- ; slsted. The old way waa to turn thorn out on the Drat of May, no matter 1 what tho condition of tho pasture or the earllness or luteuess of the soa- ' son. Sometimes tho mass In some localities lo-calities Is well advanced on the flrBt of May, but In others not. Why should there be a uniform date, even la custom, for such a matter. It pays to save the pastures for a week 01 two when they are Just beginning to ; gel a start. Olio or two weeks real at that time will give more satlsfac tory returns In the way of pasturugt 1 later on. American Hereford Breeders. 1 , At the meeting of the board of dl- ' ( rectors of tho American Hereford i Breeders' Association, recently held k In Kansas City, the following wore j ondorsed aa pursona from whom tha 1 nianagera of the World'a Fair could select a Judge for Hereford cattle at that exposition: Thomaa Clark, U. N. " Cosgrove, U. A. Btannard, George j Leigh and K. J. Taylor. An appropriation appropria-tion of (4.000 was made for the Inter- I national and also for Hie World'a F'alr f and I3U0 was appropriated for the II- llnols State Fair. As Judges at the Kansas City show, Thomaa Clark, L j M. Forbes and Dr. JeBsyra were named. An executive committee waa j appointed as follows: C. A. Btannard, f C. G. Comslock and B. C. Hhouie. 1 |