Pamphlets: Agriculture], כרך 16

כריכה קדמית
1850
 

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עמוד 19 - I can not refrain from giving it insertion here : — " When any one acquainted with the multifarious risks which surround the farming business, takes a lease of land, he does not look for profit for several years, unless it happens to have been previously put in good condition ; on the contrary, he calculates on having a heavy expenditure and little income for a considerable time. When a farm has for a number of years been starved and badly managed, to look at it, the theorist might conclude that...
עמוד 25 - ... it always grows worse, and will finish by not being able to eat at all ; and a stiff-leg is pulled about, and made miserable by the other chickens ; and inasmuch as a deformed chicken would not have left the nest of the mother, it is not worth while to attempt to do better artificially. I have hatched a duck with three legs — that is, an imperfect and extraordinary one proceeding from below the root of the tail. This lived and did well, as it had two good legs to stand upon ; but the third...
עמוד 13 - ... of the egg to diminish in bulk, and the vacuum is filled by a fresh supply, drawn in for the nourishment of the germ. The eggs must be moved three times a day — morning, noon, and night — which prevents the adhesion of any part of the fluid to the shell, and also gives the small blood-vessels a better opportunity to spread around the surface of the egg. This is effected by Nature ; when the fowl leaves her nest, or returns to it, she naturally disturbs the eggs, and also, from any change...
עמוד 21 - ... perforated bottom, and laid on a woollen cloth, and raised, to come in contact with the rubber, which sinks and covers the eggs as much as the natural mother is supposed to do ; thus nature is represented as nearly as possible. After incubation, the artificial mother consists of a number of heated pipes, about an inch and a quarter in diameter, and about the same distance apart, resting on supporters, about five inches from the floor...
עמוד 34 - ... of poultry in a year, to supply the whole population of the United Kingdom, shipping and all, which is not more than one-third of a fowl to each person once a year ; were every one to have a fowl as part food once a month, it would require 326,000,000 more fowls than are at present produced.
עמוד 25 - ... proper heat and fair eggs, a deformity of the chicken will scarcely ever be found under the Cantelonian system. In all cases of deformity, it is most economical and humane to destroy the chicken. If a cross-bill, it always grows worse, and will finish by not being able to eat at all ; and a stiff-leg is pulled about, and made miserable by the other chickens ; and inasmuch as a deformed chicken would not have left the nest of the mother, it is not worth while to attempt to do better...
עמוד 13 - ... penetrates almost instantly, and revivifies the germ; and although a much higher temperature is used in this case, in imitation of Nature — that is, 106, instead of 98 degrees— still, inasmuch as but a small surface is thus heated, the loss of moisture is much less than by a radiating heat. The fowl leaves her nest every day, in search of food, for twenty or thirty minutes ;* this must be imitated also, as the temporary loss of heat has the effect of causing the air at the butt end of...
עמוד 25 - ... and fair eggs, a deformity of the chicken will scarcely ever be found under the Cantelonian system. In all cases of deformity, it is most economical and humane to destroy the chicken. If a cross-bill, it always grows worse, and will finish by not being able to eat at all; and a stiff-leg is pulled about, and made miserable by the other chickens ; and inasmuch as a deformed chicken would not have left the nest of the mother, it is not worth while to attempt to do better artificially. I have hatched...
עמוד 24 - Much has been said relative to the injurious effects of the transport of eggs for incubation, and it has even been asserted that carriage by water is injurious. I do not say that an egg purposely shaken with violence, will produce a chicken. This I have never tried ; but I can say that they will...

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