Our Domestic FowlsReligious tract society, 1899 - 192 páginas |
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... reared from the eggs of the wild turkey are often employed as decoy birds to those in a state of nature . Mr. William Bloom , of Clurfield , Pennsylvania , caught five or six wild turkeys when quite chickens , and succeeded in rearing ...
... reared from the eggs of the wild turkey are often employed as decoy birds to those in a state of nature . Mr. William Bloom , of Clurfield , Pennsylvania , caught five or six wild turkeys when quite chickens , and succeeded in rearing ...
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... bird in Eng- land , terms it Anas sylvestris Braziliensis , the wood duck of Brazil . Linnæus , in his Fauna Suecica , says , " It is reared on the farms of the gentry , but it is not an indigenous bird 164 OUR DOMESTIC FOWLS .
... bird in Eng- land , terms it Anas sylvestris Braziliensis , the wood duck of Brazil . Linnæus , in his Fauna Suecica , says , " It is reared on the farms of the gentry , but it is not an indigenous bird 164 OUR DOMESTIC FOWLS .
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... reared in great numbers . In Lincolnshire , ( in Pennant's , ) a single person frequently possessed a thousand adult geese , each of which on an average reared seven gos- lings , so that in the course of the season his stock amounted to ...
... reared in great numbers . In Lincolnshire , ( in Pennant's , ) a single person frequently possessed a thousand adult geese , each of which on an average reared seven gos- lings , so that in the course of the season his stock amounted to ...
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