item: #1 of 9
id: 13254
author: Hastings, Milo
title: The Dollar Hen
date: None
words: 74892
flesch: 70
summary: Such eggs may be sold for what they are, but should never be mixed with other eggs or sold as fresh. The huckster scheme of gathering eggs would seemingly be a means of obtaining good eggs because of the advantage of regularity of collection, but in reality it does not always work out that way.
keywords: air; breeding; case; cent; chapter; chickens; chicks; cold; corn; cost; country; day; egg production; eggs; evaporation; fact; farm; farmer; feed; feeding; food; fresh; good; grade eggs; grain; ground; growing; hens; house; incubation; loss; man; market; means; meat; new; number; pay; poultry; poultry business; poultry farm; poultry plant; poultry production; poultry work; price; produce; production; quality; results; season; section; station; stock; storage eggs; system; temperature; time; water; work; year
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item: #2 of 9
id: 16744
author: Pratt Food Company
title: Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry
date: None
words: 30822
flesch: 77
summary: Pratts Cow Remedy] | | | |It costs as much to house and care for and nearly as much to feed a poor| |producer as a good one. I give all the credit for this remarkable improvement to Pratts Cow remedy.
keywords: animal; birds; calves; chicks; condition; corn; cow; cows; daily; day; disease; disinfectant; fed; feed; feeding; flock; food; grain; health; hog; hogs; horse; illustration; lbs; meal; milk; parts; poultry; pratts; pratts animal; pratts poultry; regulator; remedy; time; treatment; use; water; | |
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item: #3 of 9
id: 29273
author: Luce, Nancy
title: A Complete Edition of the Works of Nancy Luce
date: None
words: 8943
flesch: 89
summary: When Poor little heart happened to be out the room, Poor little heart, never can call me back no more,
keywords: creatures; god; heart; hens; human; lord; world
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item: #4 of 9
id: 34376
author: Robinson, John H. (John Henry)
title: Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture
date: None
words: 87624
flesch: 69
summary: Many smaller birds are more brilliant in color. At first fowl was applied to large birds and bird to small ones, but gradually the use of the name fowl was limited to the common domestic fowl, and bird became the generic name for all feathered creatures.
keywords: america; attention; birds; black; breeding; breeds; chickens; color; common; conditions; ducks; eggs; england; farm; feathers; fig; flock; food; fowls; geese; goose; growing; hens; house; illustration; kinds; male; market; nest; new; number; people; pheasants; photograph; pigeons; place; poultry; races; size; species; states; stock; time; turkeys; type; use; varieties; variety; water; way; white; wild; years; young
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item: #5 of 9
id: 38606
author: Piper, Hugh
title: Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition.
date: None
words: 56708
flesch: 69
summary: Uncertain as this appears, the accounts of those who pretend to trace their origin as cross-bred fowls is, at least, equally so, and I believe we may just act towards the Brahmas as we do with regard to Dorkings and other good fowls, and be satisfied to possess a first-rate, useful kind, although we may be unable to trace its genealogical tree back to the root. It was sufficiently proved by Spallanzani that the digestive fluid was incapable of dissolving grains of barley, &c., in their unbruised state; and this he ascertained by filling small hollow and perforated balls and tubes of metal or glass with grain, and causing them to be swallowed by turkeys and other fowls; when examined, after twenty-four and forty-eight hours, the grains were found to be unaffected by the gastric fluid; but when he filled similar balls and tubes with bruised grains, and caused them to be swallowed, he found, after a lapse of the same number of hours, that they were more or less dissolved by the action of the gastric juice.
keywords: birds; black; breed; breeding; chapter; chickens; cock; cold; colour; comb; day; eggs; feathers; fed; feet; fine; flesh; food; fowls; grain; ground; hen; hens; house; laying; legs; meal; nest; number; place; poultry; run; size; time; water; white
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item: #6 of 9
id: 39205
author: Jennings, Robert
title: Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc.
date: None
words: 136037
flesch: 67
summary: They feed principally on seeds, fruit, and herbage, but also, to a considerable extent, on insects, worms, and other small animals. It seems to be of a scaly texture; although is not so evident as in many other animals, on account of a peculiar substance--the yolk--which is placed on it, to protect and nourish the roots of the wool.
keywords: animal; appearance; birds; black; blood; body; bone; breed; breeding; case; cock; cold; color; common; condition; country; day; days; disease; dry; eggs; ewes; fat; feathers; fed; feeding; feet; fine; fleece; flesh; flock; food; form; fowl; good; goose; ground; half; head; hen; hens; illustration; lambs; legs; long; merino; mutton; neck; number; parts; place; poultry; pounds; price; purpose; quality; quantity; ram; sheep; size; skin; state; time; treatment; varieties; variety; water; weather; weight; white; wild; winter; wool; years; young
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item: #7 of 9
id: 40872
author: Burnham, Geo. P. (George Pickering)
title: The History of the Hen Fever. A Humorous Record
date: None
words: 70455
flesch: 78
summary: I filled the orders as they came,--first come, first served,--and for several months I found my list of promises six or eight weeks in advance of my ability to meet them with _genuine_ eggs. But my friend the Doctor wanted to put forth something that would take better than his Plymouth Rocks; and so he consulted me as to a name for a brace of _grey_ fowls I saw in his yard.
keywords: barnum; birds; boston; breed; burnham; business; chapter; chickens; china; cochin; committee; country; day; dollars; doubt; dozen; eggs; england; exhibition; fancy; fever; following; fowls; friend; gentleman; good; great; grey; hand; hen; hens; house; john; kind; know; long; man; men; money; months; new; pair; people; poultry; present; president; price; saw; shanghae; sir; society; specimens; state; stock; thing; time; trade; way; white; years; york
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item: #8 of 9
id: 41966
author: Pierson, Clara Dillingham
title: Tales of a Poultry Farm
date: None
words: 35661
flesch: 93
summary: Do you see that tall White Plymouth Rock Cock over there? said the brown-haired twin to hers. Any other Hen on the farm would, but the Brown Hen will not.
keywords: chickens; cock; fowls; good; hen; hens; man; mother; plymouth; poultry; rock; time; white
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item: #9 of 9
id: 44472
author: Conover, Mary Roberts
title: Making a Poultry House
date: None
words: 7603
flesch: 76
summary: The size of the lumber necessary for any of these buildings is about the same: Timber for sills, 5 × 6 in.; cross-beams and main supports, 4 × 3 in.; intermediate joists, supports, and rafters, 2 × 4 in.; and for weather boards and floor boards, any convenient width. A windbreak of some kind on the cold side of the building is a decided advantage--a wall, an evergreen hedge, a grove, or other buildings, will protect the poultry house, and, perhaps, also a portion of the runs, with benefit to the poultry.
keywords: boards; building; feet; floor; fowls; house; inches; nests; poultry; roof
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