Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History, and ManagementGardeners' Chronicle, 1848 - 345 sidor |
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... just hatched , but have witnessed the abominable cruelty of the father of the family in knocking a whole brood of them on the head , when nearly a quarter grown . " - H . H. her nest ; nor , if the eggs are disturbed PEA - FOWL . 5.
... just hatched , but have witnessed the abominable cruelty of the father of the family in knocking a whole brood of them on the head , when nearly a quarter grown . " - H . H. her nest ; nor , if the eggs are disturbed PEA - FOWL . 5.
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Their History, and Management Edmund Saul Dixon. her nest ; nor , if the eggs are disturbed , will she go there again . She lays from four or five to seven . If these are taken , she will frequently lay a second time during the summer ...
Their History, and Management Edmund Saul Dixon. her nest ; nor , if the eggs are disturbed , will she go there again . She lays from four or five to seven . If these are taken , she will frequently lay a second time during the summer ...
Sida 9
... nest on the bare ground , amongst nettles or rank weeds ; sometimes she chooses the shelter of a young fir tree . The egg very much resembles that of the Ostrich in miniature , being smooth , but indented all over with little dimples ...
... nest on the bare ground , amongst nettles or rank weeds ; sometimes she chooses the shelter of a young fir tree . The egg very much resembles that of the Ostrich in miniature , being smooth , but indented all over with little dimples ...
Sida 18
... nest and laid . Great were the expectations ; such a plenty of eggs ! both Swans assi- duous in sitting - rather suspicious that - the produce addle - eggs . The two ladies could not raise up a family between them . In selecting any ...
... nest and laid . Great were the expectations ; such a plenty of eggs ! both Swans assi- duous in sitting - rather suspicious that - the produce addle - eggs . The two ladies could not raise up a family between them . In selecting any ...
Sida 25
... nest , it will be an assistance to take them two or three barrowfuls of coarse litter . Sedges and rushes are the best , with perhaps a few sticks , which they can arrange at their own pleasure . The number of eggs laid will vary from ...
... nest , it will be an assistance to take them two or three barrowfuls of coarse litter . Sedges and rushes are the best , with perhaps a few sticks , which they can arrange at their own pleasure . The number of eggs laid will vary from ...
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Sida 240 - And upon a set day, Herod arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Sida 26 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Sida 139 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Sida 167 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Sida 199 - ... would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality...
Sida 140 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Sida 200 - When thou hidest thy face they are troubled : when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust.
Sida 13 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Sida 327 - Women born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold, says Waller — and Lovelace too!
Sida 257 - tried many experiments by breeding in-and-in, upon dogs, fowls, and pigeons; the dogs became from strong spaniels, weak and diminutive lapdogs; the fowls became long in the legs, small in the body, and bad feeders.