. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A .Swans Ni:st The movement should be started in the UnitedStates ; and only when we figure up our pro-ductions and profits at some international poul-try show will turke)s arouse the attentionthey deserve. Turkeys in a Park Though now and then capricious to strangersand furious to its enemies, it is in reality a verydocile bird, and a pair of swans are a model ofpeace and domestic happiness. But woe to himwho risks annoying the mother or steps toonear to the progeny if the father is near ! Hewill surely attack both men and do
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A .Swans Ni:st The movement should be started in the UnitedStates ; and only when we figure up our pro-ductions and profits at some international poul-try show will turke)s arouse the attentionthey deserve. Turkeys in a Park Though now and then capricious to strangersand furious to its enemies, it is in reality a verydocile bird, and a pair of swans are a model ofpeace and domestic happiness. But woe to himwho risks annoying the mother or steps toonear to the progeny if the father is near ! Hewill surely attack both men and dogs, as wellas aquatic animals, with vigorous blows of hispowerful wings. Swans make their own nests andrequire little care ; but when it is aquestion of raising valuable swans,it is well to construct a little islandin the middle of the pond or arti-ficial lake for the mother and tobuild upon it a shelter filled withstraw. The number of eggs laid isusually from six or eight to twelve,which the mother broods uponfor thirt\-six days, while the fathermounts guaid fai
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