The Complete English Farmer Or Husbandry Made Perfectly Easy Etc

Author : George Cooke
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230467580
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book The Complete English Farmer; Or, Husbandry Made Perfectly Easy, in All Its Useful Branches. Containing What Every Farmer Ought to Know and Practice. . written by George Cooke and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1770* edition. Excerpt: ...most common food for this purpose is barley meal, moistened with milk or water. The nature of the hen should be as nearly equal as possible with that of the cock; she should be working, vigilant and laborious, both for herself and her chickens; in size the biggest and largest are the best, every proportion answerable to those of the cock, only instead of a comb, she should have upon her crown a high tuft of seathers. She should have many and strong claws; but it will, be better if she has no hinder claws, because they often break the eggs; and besides, such as have do fometimes prove unnatural. Hens that crow are neither good breeders nor good layers. In chusing of hens for hatching the oldest are the best, because they are more constant, and will sit out their time; but if you chuse for laying, take the youngest, because they are-lusty, and prone to generatipn i but do not choose a fat hen for either of these purposes, for if shc be set she will forfake her nest; the eggs she lays will be without shells, and she will grow slothsul and indolent...s ' i ' J The best eggs are those that are laid when the hens are a year and a half, or two years old; at which time, if you would have large eggs, give them plenty of victuals, and fometimes oats, with senaegreek, to heat them: for those that are fat generally. Jay but small ones. Mix fome chalk with their food, or mix some brick with their hran, moistened with a little water, and give them their fill of half-boiled barley, with vetch and niillet...j There are fome hens that have the ill faculty of eating their eggs 5 to prevent which, take out the white of an sgg, and put moist plaister round about the yolk till it grows hard; and when the hen attempts to eat it, and finds she cannot do..