The horse and other live stock . n live long out of water, secrete a similar viscid sub-stance on the surface of their bodies, furnished to them, doubt-less, for a similar purpose. The yolk has an insipid, bland, oily taste ; and, when agi-tated with water, forms a milky emulsion. If it is long boiledit becomes fi. granular, friable solid, jnelding upon expression,a yellow, insipid, fixed oil. It consists, chemically, of water,oil, albumen, and gelatine. In proportion to the quantity ofalbumen, the egg boils hard. The weight of the eggs of the domestic fowl varies materi-ally ; in some breeds,
The horse and other live stock . n live long out of water, secrete a similar viscid sub-stance on the surface of their bodies, furnished to them, doubt-less, for a similar purpose. The yolk has an insipid, bland, oily taste ; and, when agi-tated with water, forms a milky emulsion. If it is long boiledit becomes fi. granular, friable solid, jnelding upon expression,a yellow, insipid, fixed oil. It consists, chemically, of water,oil, albumen, and gelatine. In proportion to the quantity ofalbumen, the egg boils hard. The weight of the eggs of the domestic fowl varies materi-ally ; in some breeds, averaging thirty-three ounces per dozen,in others, but fourteen and a half ounces. A fair averageweight for a dozen is twenty-two and a half ounces. Yellow,mahogany, and salmon-colored eggs are generally richer thanwhite oiies, containing, as they do, a larger quantity of are generally preferred for culinary purposes; whilethe latter, containing an excess of albumen, are preferred for boiling, etc., for the AAmiiBinapniFn; Breeding. Good fowls are very profitable in the keepingof intelligent breeders. It is stated, bj those most competentto express the opinion, that four acres of land, devoted to therearing of the best varieties of poultry, will, at ordinary prices,be quite as productive as a farm of one hundred and fifty acrescultivated in the usual way. The eggs of the common andcheaper kinds which might be used for incubators and nurses,would pay—or could be made to pay, if properly preserved,and sold at the right time—all expenses of feed, etc. ; whilegood capons of the larger breeds will bring, in any of our larger(101) 421 102 POULTRY AND THEIR DISEASES. markets, from three to five dollars per pair, and early springchickens from twenty to twenty-five cents per pound. To make poultry profitable, then, it is only necessary thatthe better kinds be bred from, that suitable places be providedfor them, that they be properly fed, and carefully and inte
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