Geese thrive on many of the grasses and weeds that infest cotton fields. It two geese per acre to weed the cotton. Twelve geese do the work of one man. As an additional saving to the farmer, a goose requires only about fifty cents worth of food annually to supplement its diet of weeds.
But the geese have shortcomings. Sometime they get too big and trample the cotton. Farmers often complain that the geese grow lazy and take long siestas during the heat of the day.