. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ing, considering that unwholesome and disgusting practice as unfit for the present age. An improved poultry feeder fig. 927.) haslately been published in the Transactions ofthe Highland Society. It is made to holdhalf a quarter of grain, not one particle ofwhich can be lost. When once filled, it re-quires no more trouble, as the grain fallsdown into
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ing, considering that unwholesome and disgusting practice as unfit for the present age. An improved poultry feeder fig. 927.) haslately been published in the Transactions ofthe Highland Society. It is made to holdhalf a quarter of grain, not one particle ofwhich can be lost. When once filled, it re-quires no more trouble, as the grain fallsdown into the receiver below, as the fowlspick it away ; and the covers on that, whichare opened by perches, and the iron coverabove, which is secured by a padlock, c keep the grain from the rain, so thatthe fowls get it always quite dry; and asnothing Ipss than the weight of a hen on aperch can lift a cover on the lower receiver,sparrows, and other small birds, are com-pletely excluded, whilst the small cross barsthrough which the fowls pick prevent cattleand other large animals from getting at thegrain. It is astonishing with what facilitythe fowls learn to leap upon the perch, andso open the cover of the receiver whichcovers the Sect. 11. Gallinaceous Fowls, their Kinds, Breeding, Rearing, and Management. 7438. Under the order Gallinaec are included the common hen, turkey, Guinea, andpeacock.; ami we shall here treat of each of these birds in succession. ? different
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