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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... means an easy task : nor is it probable that it was completed , before a long series of gradual attempts and many fruitless efforts had been made . From the injunction given to Abraham nearly 4000 years ago , and imposed by the ...
... means an easy task : nor is it probable that it was completed , before a long series of gradual attempts and many fruitless efforts had been made . From the injunction given to Abraham nearly 4000 years ago , and imposed by the ...
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... means of a pigeon stained with a purple dye , conveyed to his father at Ægina information of his victories in the Olympic games , on the same day on which they occurred . In a similar manner , also , did the be- sieged at Modena keep up ...
... means of a pigeon stained with a purple dye , conveyed to his father at Ægina information of his victories in the Olympic games , on the same day on which they occurred . In a similar manner , also , did the be- sieged at Modena keep up ...
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... 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 Roman people : an opinion that would appear ...
... 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 Roman people : an opinion that would appear ...
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... means of providing eggs for the table of his master and mistress . Cicero , too , informs us that hens were reared and kept entirely for the profit derived from the sale of their eggs . According to Pliny , the inhabitants of the Isle ...
... means of providing eggs for the table of his master and mistress . Cicero , too , informs us that hens were reared and kept entirely for the profit derived from the sale of their eggs . According to Pliny , the inhabitants of the Isle ...
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... means of providing funds for the relief of the poor ; a plan worthy the at- tention of pauper farmers ! Cruel as the sport was , it continued to disgrace our national pastimes , sanctioned by custom and unchecked by law , un- til the ...
... means of providing funds for the relief of the poor ; a plan worthy the at- tention of pauper farmers ! Cruel as the sport was , it continued to disgrace our national pastimes , sanctioned by custom and unchecked by law , un- til the ...
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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