Range for Breeders--Number of Geese to the Acre--Water for Breeding Geese--Distinguishing the Sex--Purchase of Breeding Stock--Time of Laying--Housing--Yards--Feeding the Breeding Geese. XII. Incubation 172 Care of Eggs for Hatching--Methods of Incubation--Period of Incubation--Hatching with Chicken Hens--Hatching with Geese--Breaking Up Broody Geese--Hatching with an Incubator--Moisture for Hatching Eggs--Hatching. XIII. Brooding and Rearing Goslings 178 Methods of Brooding--Brooding with Hens or Geese--Length of Time Brooding is Necessary--Artificial Brooding--General Care of Growing Goslings--Feeding the Goslings--Percentage of Goslings Raised--Rapidity of Growth--Diseases. XIV. Fattening and Marketing Geese 187 Classes of Geese Marketed--Markets and Prices--Prejudice Against Roast Goose--Methods of Fattening Geese for Market--Pen Fattening--Noodling Geese--Methods Used on Fattening Farms--Selling Geese Alive--Killing--Picking--Packing for Shipment--Saving the Feathers--Plucking Live Geese for their Feathers. Index 215 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece. Water Yards and Ducklings. 1. Mule Ducks and Blue Swedish Ducks 10 2. Mallard Ducks 11 3. Goose, Duck and Hen Eggs 18 4. Young Pekins for Breeders and Aylesbury Drake 19 5. Rouen Drake and Black East India Ducks 24 6. Rouen Drake in Summer Plumage and Rouen Duck 25 7. Cayuga Ducks 26 8. Gray Call Ducks 27 9. White Call Ducks 28 10. Colored Muscovy Drake and White Muscovy Drake 29 11. Crested White Drake and Young White Muscovy Showing Black on Head 32 12. Wing of Blue Swedish Duck 33 13. Pair of Buff Ducks 36 14. Penciled Runner Drake and White Runner Drake 37 15. Methods of Carrying Ducks 40 16. Power Feed Mixer 41 17. Duck Houses 58 18. House for Breeding Ducks 59 19. Another Type of Breeding House 62 20. Feeding the Breeders 63