PLAN No. 525. GEESE ON THE FARM
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If farmers more generally realized the profits to be derived from the raising of geese, there would be many more in the country, and thousands of dollars more in the farmers’ pockets.
The wife of an Illinois farmer, who did realize how easy and economical it is to raise geese, and the profits they pay, in both flesh and feathers, made a specialty of them, and as a result of her foresight and enterprise always had money, while the other farmers’ wives were continually complaining of the lack of pin-money. At last a number of them followed her example, and raised geese in great numbers. The care and cost of geese are small, compared with the expense of raising other fowls. They rustle their own living off of land that is good for nothing else, though in the breeding and laying season this lady gave them shorts and Indian meal twice a day.
From 100 geese, this woman generally realized from $250 to $300 a year, which was nearly all profit. She made the profits increase her flocks, until she had several hundred, which brought her an excellent income every year.