Moubray's Treatise on Domestic and Ornamental Poultry: A Practical Guide to the History, Breeding, Rearing, Feeding, Fattening, and General Management of Fowls and PigeonsArthur Hall, Virtue, and Company, 1854 - 504 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... less remote than among the Jews : of this abundant evidence is found in the works of Æsop , Anacreon , Virgil , and others . In the pages of those writers , frequent allusion is made to the bird as a " Bearer of Epistles , " or Carrier ...
... less remote than among the Jews : of this abundant evidence is found in the works of Æsop , Anacreon , Virgil , and others . In the pages of those writers , frequent allusion is made to the bird as a " Bearer of Epistles , " or Carrier ...
Pagina 7
... less sought after in order to pro- vide the means of resting softly at night . From the directions given by Columella ( A. D. 40 ) for rearing geese and ducks , some have sup- posed that the latter were not then domesticated among the ...
... less sought after in order to pro- vide the means of resting softly at night . From the directions given by Columella ( A. D. 40 ) for rearing geese and ducks , some have sup- posed that the latter were not then domesticated among the ...
Pagina 27
... less than one hundred of those birds were daily served up for a week ! Much later , too , we find peacocks , or Peions , occupying a conspicuous place in the lists of flesh for the table , -occurring fre- quently in the Household Books ...
... less than one hundred of those birds were daily served up for a week ! Much later , too , we find peacocks , or Peions , occupying a conspicuous place in the lists of flesh for the table , -occurring fre- quently in the Household Books ...
Pagina 32
... less remote then it really was . Ducks ( and evidently tame ones ) are mention- ed in ancient records of a date at least two centuries anterior to that above named . Dugdale ( Antiq . Warwick . ) in a list of the prices of provisions in ...
... less remote then it really was . Ducks ( and evidently tame ones ) are mention- ed in ancient records of a date at least two centuries anterior to that above named . Dugdale ( Antiq . Warwick . ) in a list of the prices of provisions in ...
Pagina 43
... less than 100 quarters of grain were consumed every week during the season , at one farmstead , at Monk's Dyke in the same district , on which 3210 geese were fed daily . Several thousands of these fowls are annually fattened and sent ...
... less than 100 quarters of grain were consumed every week during the season , at one farmstead , at Monk's Dyke in the same district , on which 3210 geese were fed daily . Several thousands of these fowls are annually fattened and sent ...
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appearance Bantam beautiful bill birds body breast breed bright brood brown chickens chicks cloth Cochin China cock colour comb common Common Pheasant covered crest dark described disease distinct domestic Dorking duck Edition eggs English Pouter Engravings especially exhibit fanciers fancy fattened Fcap Feap feathers feeding flavour flesh fowls Game geese gilt edges Goose grains grey ground hackle hatched head Illustrations imported inches incubate jalap JOHN CUMMING kind known latter legs light Malay male marked morocco mottled neck hackle nest origin peculiar perhaps Pheasant pigeons plumage Poland possess Post 8vo poultry produce reared Rock Pigeon rump hackle scarcely shade Silver Pheasant sometimes spangled Spanish specimens speckled streaked sub-variety Swan tail Temminck tion tuft Tumbler Turbit Turkey usually variety wattles whence whilst wild wings writers yard yellow young