A Treatise on the History and Management of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry |
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A Treatise on the History and Management of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry Edmund Saul Dixon No preview available - 2019 |
A Treatise on the History and Management of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry Edmund Saul Dixon No preview available - 2015 |
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animals appearance Bantam beautiful birds Black Spanish breast bred breed of Fowls breeders Brent Goose brood brown called Canada Goose Capons Chickens Chicks China Goose Chittagong Cochin China Cockerel Cocks and Hens colour Columella comb common common Pheasant coop creatures crest cross Ditto Dixon Domestic Fowl Domestic Goose Dorking Ducks early Eggs favour feathers feeding feet flesh Game Fowl Gander Geese give Golden Goslings gray Guinea Fowl hackle Hamburghs hatched head incubation Jungle Fowl keep laid layers legs Malay male Mallard months old moulting neck nest never original pair peculiar Pheasant plumage Poland Polish Poultry pounds produced Pullets pure race rearing remarkably says season seen Shanghae shell Silver sometimes sort Spangled species specimens Speckled Swan tail Temminck thing toes top-knot Turkeys variety wattles weighed wild wings yellow young
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Page 449 - 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.
Page 96 - 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.
Page 393 - 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.
Page 449 - And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, 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...
Page 26 - ... 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...
Page 57 - ... 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...
Page 58 - When thou hidest thy face they are troubled : when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust.
Page 194 - 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.
Page 26 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, "Here we are?" Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Page 445 - As from his lair the wild beast where he wons In" forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den...