The American Poultry Yard: Comprising the Origin, History, and Description of the Different Breeds of Domestic Poultry ...C. M. Saxton, 1850 - 322 էջ |
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... believe that those , who , at this epoch , hunt for cocks and hens of the same species as our tame ones , either on the continent of Asia , or throughout the whole inhabited vast Indian Archipelago , will have undertaken but a fruitless ...
... believe that those , who , at this epoch , hunt for cocks and hens of the same species as our tame ones , either on the continent of Asia , or throughout the whole inhabited vast Indian Archipelago , will have undertaken but a fruitless ...
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... believe domestication to be capable of producing such changes . The crest of feathers on the head is an extraordinary metamorphosis to have occurred from an original fleshy comb . There is no instance , that I am aware , of any wild ...
... believe domestication to be capable of producing such changes . The crest of feathers on the head is an extraordinary metamorphosis to have occurred from an original fleshy comb . There is no instance , that I am aware , of any wild ...
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... believe it was man who arranged the strata in the ribs of the earth , and prescribed to the sea its everchanging boundaries . Man is powerful to have dominion ; God alone is potent to create His Providence to overrule . Not by man , nor ...
... believe it was man who arranged the strata in the ribs of the earth , and prescribed to the sea its everchanging boundaries . Man is powerful to have dominion ; God alone is potent to create His Providence to overrule . Not by man , nor ...
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... believe were indigenous . " In travel- ling over the gloomy and inextricable forests of Gui- ana , " says he , " when the dawn of day began to appear , amidst the immense woods of lofty trees , which fall under the stroke of time only ...
... believe were indigenous . " In travel- ling over the gloomy and inextricable forests of Gui- ana , " says he , " when the dawn of day began to appear , amidst the immense woods of lofty trees , which fall under the stroke of time only ...
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... believe that this hue indicates richness of flavor — a fact which has not yet been made sensible to my own palate . The chicks are at first very strong , with yellow legs , and are thickly covered with light- brown down ; but , by the ...
... believe that this hue indicates richness of flavor — a fact which has not yet been made sensible to my own palate . The chicks are at first very strong , with yellow legs , and are thickly covered with light- brown down ; but , by the ...
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The American Poultry Yard: Comprising the Origin, History, and Description ... Daniel Jay Browne Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1854 |
The American Poultry Yard: Comprising the Origin, History, and Description ... Daniel Jay Browne Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1851 |
The American Poultry Yard: Comprising the Origin, History, and Description ... Daniel Jay Browne Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1863 |
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Aldrovandi animals appearance Bantam barley beauty birds boiled breed brood Canada goose capons chickens chicks China goose Cochin-China cockerel cocks and hens cold color Columella comb common fowl confined coop costiveness covered creatures crest cross ditto domestic fowls domestic goose domestic turkey Dorking duck eggs England English and Anglo-Americans eyes fatten feathers feeding feet female flavor flesh flock Flourens game cock geese give golden grain grey Guinea fowl habits hackles Hamburgh hatched head incubation Indian jungle fowl larvæ layers legs less Malay male membrane mother moulting musk duck natural neck nest observed pea fowl peacock pheasant pint measures plumage Polands Polish poultry poultry yard produced pullet race rearing Réaumur render roost rump says season shell skin sometimes sort species swan tail Temminck tion variety warm wattles wild turkey wings yolk young
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Էջ 6 - ... 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...
Էջ 6 - Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep ; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine : yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
Էջ 14 - When thou hidest thy face they are troubled : when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust.
Էջ 311 - But the master soon recollecting that so many eggs are worth a dollar or a crown, casts his eye towards the rock, marks the day in his memory and gives orders to depart. The light breeze enables them to reach another...
Էջ 230 - Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea. Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores, Their brood as numerous hatch from the egg, that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosed Their callow young ; but feathered soon and fledge, They summed their pens, and soaring the...
Էջ 182 - And I speak within bounds when I assert, that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour.
Էջ 230 - The earth obeyed, and straight Opening her fertile womb teemed at a birth Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, Limbed and full grown: out of the ground up rose As from his lair the wild beast where he wons In" forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den...
Էջ 180 - 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...
Էջ 150 - Indian buffalo, they have been compelled to yield to the destructive ingenuity of the white settlers, often wantonly exercised, and seek refuge in the remotest parts of the interior. Although they relinquish their native soil with slow and reluctant steps, yet such is the rapidity with which settlements are extended and condensed over the surface of this country, that we may anticipate a day, at no distant period, when the hunter will seek the wild turkey in vain.
Էջ 144 - ... proceed rapidly towards the shore: on approaching which, should they find it too steep for landing, they cease their exertions for a few moments, float down the stream until they come to an accessible part, and' by a violent effort generally extricate themselves from the water. It is remarkable, that immediately after thus crossing a large stream, they ramble about for some time, as if bewildered. In this state they fall an easy prey to the hunter.