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. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Cochin-China Cock packed. There are even special trains for thetransportation of poultry and eggs. A fewweeks after the birds arrive at their desti-nation disease shows itself, and if haste isnot made to separate the healthy from theunhealthy fowls, a whole poultry yard will beinfected in a few days. Those who wish to devote themselves topoultry raising should make deliberate choice. as to the external appearance of the breedthey prefer. But a choice once made should 224 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS be kept to. Then the breeder
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Cochin-China Cock packed. There are even special trains for thetransportation of poultry and eggs. A fewweeks after the birds arrive at their desti-nation disease shows itself, and if haste isnot made to separate the healthy from theunhealthy fowls, a whole poultry yard will beinfected in a few days. Those who wish to devote themselves topoultry raising should make deliberate choice. as to the external appearance of the breedthey prefer. But a choice once made should 224 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS be kept to. Then the breeder must applyhimself to improve the species, bearing inmind that all hens will not lay from onehundred and fifty to two hundred and eightyeggs, as the advertisers endeavor to make usthink, and also that out of every five hundredeggs half will produce cocks. On large poultry young and old. It is composed of shell, skin,white of egg, and yolk, the latter a fatty, yellowsubstance. As human food an egg does notcontain (as often stated) as much nourishmentas half a pound of meat; it would take six orseven eggs for that. The white contains eighty-five per cent of water, the yolk fifty-one per
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