A person called a gozzard, ie, a goose-herd, attends the flock, and twice a day drives the whole to water; then brings them back to their habitations, helping those that live in the upper stories to their nests, without ever misplacing a single bird. American Poultry Book - Página 155de Micajah R. Cock - 1843 - 202 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| William Richards - 1812 - 676 páginas
...the flock, and twice a diiy drives the whole to water, then brings them back to llie.ir habitation, helping those that live in the upper stories to their nests, without ever misplacing a single bird. |i Another odd custom in some parts of this same country, is that of preparing coic-dung, and converting... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 318 páginas
...attends the flock, and twice a day drives the whole to water, then brings tbem back to their habitation, helping those that live in the upper stories to their...nests, without ever misplacing a single bird. " The common mode of plucking .gtese, (says a modern writer) is considered a barbarous custom-; but it has... | |
| Thomas Allen - 1830 - 478 páginas
...attends the flock, and twice a day drives the whole to water, then brings them back to their habitation, helping those that live in the upper stories to their nests, without ever misplacing a single bird."f • For a more particular account of such lands, and their comparative profits, see Young's... | |
| Edward Stanley - 1835 - 334 páginas
...from the others, of which it keeps possession during the time of sitting. A person called a gozzard, attends the flock, and twice a day drives the whole...their nests, without ever misplacing a single bird. They are, as we have observed in treating of Feathers (vol. i., p. 8 1 ), plucked frequently, we believe... | |
| John (uncle, pseud.) - 1846 - 304 páginas
...goose-herd attends the flock, and twice a day drives them to water, and brings them back, helping those who live in the upper stories to their nests, without...misplacing a single bird. " The geese are plucked four or five times a year, even the goslings are not spared ; and it is considered that early plucking... | |
| Wonders - 1848 - 496 páginas
...possession during the time of sitting. A person called a gozzard attends the flock, and twice a-day drives the whole to water, then brings them back to...their nests, without ever misplacing a single bird. These birds are chiefly bred and reared for the value of their down and feathers. The season of sheepshearing... | |
| England - 1848 - 710 páginas
...attends the dock, and twice a-day drives the whole to water, then brings them back to their habitation, helping those that live in the upper stories to their nests, without ever misplacing a single bird." In this operation, the least mistake in placing a goose on л wrong иг-', if not immediately corrected,... | |
| Samuel Clark - 1857 - 308 páginas
...goose-herd attends the flock, and twice a day drives them to water .and brings them back, helping those who live in the upper stories to their nests without ever...misplacing a single bird. " The geese are plucked four or five times a year, even the goslings are not spared ; and it is considered that early plucking... | |
| Charles Knight - 1867 - 630 páginas
...during the time of sitting. A person called a Gozzard, that is, Goose-Herd, attends the flock, und twice a day drives the whole to water ; then brings...helping those that live in the upper stories to their neste, without ever misplacing a single bird. The geese are plucked five times in the year ; the first... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1871 - 622 páginas
...a gozzard, that is gooschtrd, attends the flock, and twice a day drives the whole to water, tht-п brings them back to their habitations, helping those that live in the upper stories, without ever misplacing a singlo bird. The geese are plucked five times in the year ; the first plucking... | |
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