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Toronto, visiting.with Jack Hill, Fri-| My Harold Graves is home from + : ' day. + ° : Markham for a week. | GEESE- , 'Mrs." Herb. Hill. and baby have re-| Mr. and Mrs. Talbert Evans visiting ih 4 : turned home after visiting for a week [on Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Wild d D . with Mr. and Mrs, Hill, Robt. Redshaw at Claremont. . 1 an omesti Miss Pearl Dalles unending sop 4 Mp fng ts Charlie ee su (By Rusticus) of the holidays with Mr, an rs. E.| Mrs. Jack Crosier, Mr. an rs. Jack Iain Od Ballard, ; Hill, Mr. and Mys. Bruce Bailey, Mr. This is mostly shout gesse; Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. J.|and Mrs. Earl Ballard, spent-Saturday | My interest in this subject has been Simpson on the birth of a son, on|evening with Mr. and Mys. Chester | aroused by an article in the Globe Thursday last. Geer. and Mail of Toronto. A writer, Anne Messrs. Jim, Ken. and Grant Evans| Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hill and June, | Merrill, has an article in that paper We are now showing some of our. new. 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There is & i these products and we will be § PORT PERRY "PHONE 73 =~ § a a a a a a a a TN AS RASA Ky person with the faintest interest in ornithology would not hghtly pass over what she has to suy. She is well informed on the subject ol our native birds, closely follows then coming and gotng, and Knows a lot about then migration routes, Occasionally Anne Mernill allows her interest to divert her from the subject of native fowl to something of wider appeal. She did so in one of her articles durmmg Pebruary of thus year, and conveyed ww her readers cor- twin formation she herself had just received rom Hoyes Lloyd of Ottawa about legislation prepared' by the Danish Government, and soon Ww be enforced, for the prétection of wild geese in their breeding grounds in Greenland. The geese that breed in Greenland are the Barnacle, the Pink- footed, and the Brant, ~ The sume law will also protect wild ducks, the Su- bine Gull, and certain mammals, not- ably the Musk Ox, but with these we are not, at the moment, concerned. It is remarkable how childhood me- mories linger with us all-through the yenrs. When 1 read about the law designed to protect the Barnacle my thoughts flashed back over a space of fifty years to the hunting exploits of grand-uncle George and hs curly brown' retrievor: = What stories he used to tell! And how he loved to tell them! How he used to leave the house in the evemng, when other folks were going in-doors, and, accom- panied by hi¢ fmthiul dog, slip out with his boat on the ebbing tide yntil he had reached the feeding grounds of these wild fowl. There he would anchor and wait, under all sorts of weather, among the wrack beds and the glaur, seeking an opportunity to | out-wit the very intelligent wild fowl. I recall, too, that in addition to his dog and shot-gun and boat he used a sort of toboggan for crawling over the glaur. He was always careful, too, to get around to the windy side of the birds so that they might not catch scent of him or his dog. [| can still hear him spin his yarns. Better yet, 1 can see some of the dead, but still heautiful birds, that he sometimes brought to our home, and can almost taste the savoury odours of the cook- ing and the more substantial portions that reached our plates. Teal, Wid- goon and Barnacle are the names that come to me from those expeditions of uncle George. The first two, 1 now know, are ducks, while the Barn- acle is a goose. Other wild geese that Jught to 'he noted here are the Egyptian (Chen- alopex Aegyptiacus) and the Canada (Branta Canadensis) goose. The for- mer ranges north well over Europe, and breeds also in parts of the Brit- ish Isles. [Its southern range includes north Africa and the lower Nile. In colour its upper parts are a mixture of rusty brown and white, its under parts a greyish white, while its wing tips 'and tail are black. It presents the appearance of being leggy with no great weight, A domesticated variety. of the Kpygtiun goosS& has been developed. The Canada goose ranges well over the North American continent. Its breeding grounds are within the artic circle, beyond the li- mit of trees. There it has compara- tive safety and plenty of green vege- Honk;" is "one of the. sounds. that bes long to early November, and, looking up, one sees the characteristic V for- mation .as they wing their way fur- ther south, i The body colour of the Canada goose is grey, of a shade closely re- sembling the Toulouse, the breast gra- duates upwards from grey to almost white at the base of the neck. There, suddenly, the neck becomes black and the black continues right over the head to the base of the bill, with the ex- ception of a white band behind the eye that beging at eye level and runs around under the throat to the same height on the other side. The black neck and head, with this white band urider the throat, are distinguishing marks of the Canada goose, - A dinner built around a Canada goose can be a delicious treat. The Archer Motor Sales ~ PHONE 57 PORT PERRY, ONT. adult gander will weigh as much as tation, Its familiar 'Honk, Honk | 12 pounds, the young one about 10 pounds. The adult goose will turn the scales at 10 pounds, and the young at 8 pounds. Is it'any wonder, then, that during migration many a Canada goose falls vietim to the sportsman's gun?! More of this happens on the feeding grounds than during flight, but a good shot will sometimes fetch one down from the dizzy height at which they like to fly. A rifle and an expert hand at the trigger are needed for that. Such 4 hunter likes to aim at the big gander that always takes the lead in the V formation that 1s 30 carefully kept by the geese. An interest in wild geese naturally cated varieties. "Naturalists," says Dr. Morley Jull of the U.S.A. Depart- ment of Agriculture, "are in general ugrecment that the wild Graylag of all of the domestic breeds of geese known today, with the exception of the Canadian and Egyptian geese." It would appear that when man first entered Europe the Graylag goose ex- isted in grent numbers, It had a vast sumer range, from Iceland, Scandinavia and Finland as far south us the- Caspian and Black Sea dist- ricts in Russia, and as far east across Asin us Kamchatka. Its winter range included Central Europe, the Medit- is a large aren of similarity between the various breeds descended from the Graylag is only to be expected. Darwin long ago remarked that "har- dly any other domesticated bird or quadruped has varied so little," Under the accepted nomenclature, the domestic breeds are: '1. Sebasto- pol; 2. Kmbden; 3. Toulouse; 4. Chi- nese (a)brown and (b)white; and b. African. All these are descended from the ancient Graylag -goose. There are also domestic varieties of the Egyptian and the Canadian goose. The Sebastopol is a white goose. It is not recognized as a standard breed on the North American continent, al- though it is widely distributed in coun- tries bordering on the Black Sea and in Hungary where it is. known as the Danubian Rippled goose. The chief characteristic of this bird is the wavy condition of its plumage. In Ireland the common name for this breed is Ragman, because the outer feathers, ora portion of them, give the appear- ance of something whose outer gar- ments have been torn to shreds and tatters. The present writer recalls one his mother had when he was a boy. It was a small goose but very prolific. Fifty-five and sixty eggs per sémson were usual, and a gosling Embden gander, the product was something to write home about. About forty per cent of them were rippled. The Embden, another pure. white breed, originated in Hanover, Ger- many, but it seems to have been im- proved considerably in England. It is bred extensively in Britain as well us in all parts of Europe. In western Germany the Embden was sometimes spoken of as the Bremen and under that name it was first imported into the United States. - Later importa. tions were made from Britain under the name Embden. .The . standard 'weights of the Embden are: adult gander 20 pounds; young gander 18 potinds; adult goose 18 pounds;. young goose 16 pounds, Because of its size: and its white plumage, the Embden is particularly well adapted for market purposes. The Toulouse originated in the Tou- louse district of France. This is a large grey goose. Early in the nine- teenth century it was exported from France to the British Isles and other countries where, in some cases, it was improved. Today the Toulouse is probably more widely spread than any other breed. Farm flocks are frequ- ently a mixture of several breeds, but usually the major portion of the blood will be found to be Toulouse. It is the largest of all breeds. The standard weights are: adult gander, 26 pounds; young gander, 20 pounds; adult goose, 20 pounds; young goose, 16 pounds. (continued on back page) .. _ EE leads to an interest in the domesti- goose (Anser anser) is the ancestor . .- ervean, India and China. That there - from every egg. Crossed with a big