The Poultry Chronicle, 1. kötet

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1854
 

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263. oldal - BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still.
394. oldal - Her tattered mantle, and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips, her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore, Imps, in the barn with mousing owlet bred, From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ; Whose dark eyes flashed through locks of blackest shade, When in the breeze the distant watch-dog bayed : — And heroes fled the Sibyl's muttered call, Whose elfin prowess scaled the orchard wall.
513. oldal - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
267. oldal - It ranks in this respect with the nutritious pea and the gram of the East. It is not merely as a relish, therefore, that the wayfaring Spaniard eats his onion with his humble crust of bread, as he sits by the refreshing spring : it is because experience has long proved that, like the cheese of the English laborer, it helps to sustain his strength also, and adds — beyond what its bulk would suggest — to the amount of nourishment which his simple meal supplies.
564. oldal - DR. DE JONGH'S LIGHT BROWN COD LIVER OIL. PREPARED for Medicinal Use in the Loffoden Isles, Norway, and put to the Test of Chemical Analysis. The most effectual remedy for CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, GOUT, CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, and all SCROFULOUS DISEASES.
267. oldal - It is largely cultivated at home, and is imported, to the extent of seven or eight hundred tons a-year, from Spain and Portugal. But it rises in importance when we consider that in these latter countries it forms one of the common and universal supports of life. It is interesting, therefore, to know that in addition to the peculiar flavour which first recommends it, the onion is remarkably nutritious.
94. oldal - If upon a party, it may be made by leaving the notice or other paper at his residence, between the hours of eight in the morning and six in the evening, with some person of...
51. oldal - As they become older, meal and grain may be given more freely. They now begin to search for insects, and to dust their growing plumage in the sand. At the age of about two months, or perhaps a little more, the males and females begin to develop their distinctive characteristics. In the young males the carunculated skin of the neck and throat, and the horn-like contractile comb on the forehead, assume a marked character. This is a critical period. The system requires a full supply of nutriment, and...
488. oldal - ... to the pens like soldiers in close column. " GOSLINGS, or young geese, come to hand generally about the month of March, after which, a regular and constant supply arrives weekly throughout the season. At first they are fed on soft meat, consisting of prime barley or oatmeal; afterwards on dry corn.
95. oldal - Stewards, shall forfeit all or any prizes awarded to him or her at the Show, and will be disqualified from competing at any future Show of the Society, and the Council shall have the power to inform other Societies of their action in this respect. 17. No person who shall have been shown to the satisfaction of the Council to have been excluded from exhibiting for Prizes at the exhibition of any other Society in consequence of having attempted to obtain a Prize by giving a false Certificate, or by...

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