Show I 1 A GEESE AND DUCKS ARE PREFERRED fowls require little liftee feed and not much care we almost swear sear liy by our geese and wu we can make each old goose bring brine lu in a season its not easy to make sows bows return a greater profit when present feed costs are computed our old pairs and we ive never attempt to raise from young geese are good for four dozen eggs in a season and will raise 30 go slings each to mat maturity urit y writes J L phillips whitman county washington in cappers former farmer each goose lays three times and we let tier sit on tier her last laying of eggs there Is little cost to raising geese on a general f farm iran and a nd that Is the place for profits on almost any sort of live stock our go slings grow up on gross grass until after harvest then they fatten themselves on waste grain in the wheat and oats fields and on corn and beans scattered whore where tile the hogs ha hi livest i vest those crops they get practically nothing that would not otherwise go to waste we sell the best goslings gollings go slings as breeders bleeders bre eders for 5 each and the common ones sit at mar market et price for thanksgiving and christmas they weigh IS 15 t to 0 20 pounds each by dressing them we g ket et better than 1 each out of the flen to pay for the work our ducks are almost as profitable ns the seese geese and if it wore were not for tile lie filet fact that the eggs do not hatch in an ordinary incubator I 1 doubt if wo we would have a hen on the place face they lay splendidly and we lintel hatch from april until august the young tire full feathered at eight weeks for the broiler chicken market and we have no trouble selling them we like them mighty well fried too and use a lot of them at home the old ducks weigh 6 to 9 1 pounds and the young youn 9 ones at eight weeks old as high as 4 pounds we never could pet get that weight with chickens t dont think the average family appreciates pre preci clates ates the ease with which ili the e w water titer fowls are raised ducklings Duc klings or go slings increase in weight about three times its as rapidly ns as eb chickens ickens it makes the need of brooding much shorter and gets some size on thern them so they will be out of danger from rals or from being tramped on to long n 9 before chickens have bare reached that stage |