The Farm-poultry (1899) (14751421676)

Identifier: farmpoultry103unse (find matches)
Title: The Farm-poultry
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Poultry Northeastern States Periodicals Poultry Industry Northeastern States Periodicals
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : I.S. Johnson and Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library



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Catalogues! Catalogues! The only official guide to the show ; tells you all about W» are inside, and now see long lines of coops,and hear a chorus of crowings, cacklings, coo-ings, and all the inimitable din that can onlycome from gcores/)f feathered throats. Bench after bench, holding coops of finsfowls and dainty pigeons, bring exclamatioDBof delight from the ladies and children. AVhat are these queer birds with plumedhelmets bound over their heads? Then thevisitor says: Why, tis just like a leaf out ofScotts novels; are they really truly trainedfalcons, and do people go a-hawking now-i-days? Coming to another display cage:What lovely little things! Wood ducks? Arent they just too horrid little things. For just then some of the pretty, festive, iittiawood ducks have plunged into their tank fo^ta frolic, and have sent a shower bath ovQKimadames gown. What dear, sweet, soft, little things —andsuch eyes. Howland & AVhitneys pretto.!Belgian hare mother, with her ten little babM;
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WHITE WYANDOTTE COCK.Headine the Ist prize Breeding Fen. Exhibited by Geo. I.. Gaiolej, I.yiin, Maa*. , J 1899 KARM - POULTR V 49 piled in a downy, furry heiip, looks veryproud, and snuggles closer to hei little ones,blinking her handsome eyes at the visitors. This little pig went to and here is a wee golden haired youngster telling himselfthe old nursery jingle as he stands before thecage containing the little Yorkshire pigs. Soit goes all through the hall; the porcupines,^oxes, woodchucks, the eagle, the black bear,coons, gray squirrels, the owls, beautifulpheasants, pea fowls, cjuail, dancing mice,Belgian hares, cavies, cats, bantams, pigeons,and fowls,— every display cage coming in forits share of attention. Senora Cervera, a hencaptured at Guantanamo, despite the fact thather ancestry is very much mixed, is a proudand haughty Cuban, as becomes the mascot ofthe 1st marine battallion I). S. JJ. But wejnusnt take up all the time with displays.« « « It was a pleasure to note tha