To the barn-keeper belong the corn-droppings in harvest at the barn-door, if his ealdorman give it him and he faithfully earn it.
In 1948 honey locust seeds were noticed in great abundance in the droppings of cattle; their dispersal in this manner probably is in large part responsible for the abundance of young honey locusts throughout the former pastures.
Probably in every instance the seeds have reached the area in droppingsof birds.
In dysentery which results from a diseased condition of the intestines, the droppings are more frothy and mingled with blood, and attended with rapid prostration.
Keep your turkey house clean and dry, and if you see any sign of this disease it is much better to remove the droppings every day, and if taken in time roup is not a fatal disease.
I put lime on the droppings boards every day; it will kill the disease in no time and do no injury to the turkey.
When you go into the turkey house in the morning, go directly to the droppings board and see if you find any yellow droppings.
If they are give one of the Mahaney Blackhead pills every hour until the droppings become normal.
The symptoms are loose droppings of different colors which befoul the feathers, lassitude, and a loss of condition.
One of the secrets of raising turkeys is to keep the droppings a bright green; that, of course, keeps the liver in good condition, and goes a long way in keeping blackhead out of the flock.
I give them all the lettuce they can eat three times daily, as the secret of raising turkeys is to keep their bowels in good order, and the droppings a bright green.
It is one of the necessities in raising turkeys that you keep the liver clean and if you feed lettuce two or three times a day, the droppings will be a bright green and in good condition.
When a disease of this kind enters your turkey house disinfect your droppings boards, and feed five quarts of hot mash from Margaret Mahaney's Turkey Feed with one or two onions chopped fine and put in the mash.
Look over the droppings board every morning and see if there are any yellow droppings.
The only unmistakable symptom is the presence of worms in the droppings when they first pass out.
Peat may be advantageously used to save from waste the droppings of the yard.
We use muck largely in our barn-yards, and after it becomes thoroughly saturated and intermixed with the droppings of the stock, it is piled up to ferment, and the yard is covered again with fresh muck.
If the horse is not digesting his food properly, whole grains will be found in his droppings that have passed through the bowels unaltered.
Murie (1959) said that experience taught him that wings left from fox kills or remains of storm-petrels in fox droppings could be accepted as evidence of the presence of a colony.
Take five or six barrow loads of horse droppings that have lain in a heap for some time, and lost their heat, and mix them with one-fourth of their bulk of short stable litter.
The dry, fresh droppingsare the very best material for starting the mycelium into growth.
Sometimes when the manure under preparation had been rather old and cool, I have added a fifth or tenth part of fresh droppings to it, with very quickening effect in heating and apparent benefit to the crop.
The real mill-track spawn is the natural spawn that has spread through the thoroughly amalgamated horse droppings in mill-tracks or the cleanings from mill-tracks.
Horse droppings from the roads one part, cow dung two parts, mixed with a little loam.
If the manure had been moist enough this sprinkling should not be resorted to, but the fresh droppings added instead.
But droppings alone for large beds would take too much manure and cost too much, and they would not be any better than with a rougher manure.
The mushroom growers consider that the manure from animals that are worked hard and abundantly fed on dry, good food is the best; the droppings from these are always dry and rich in ammonia, nitrogen and phosphates.
Horse droppingsone part, cow dung one-fourth, loam one twentieth.
Fresh horse droppings mixed with short litter one part, cow dung one-third, and a small portion of loam.
Some growers use the droppings only, and reject all of the strawy part, or as much of it as they can conveniently shake out.
The manure water that has given me most satisfaction is prepared as follows: Dump two bushels of fresh horse droppings into a forty-five gallon barrel and fill up with water; stir it up well and let it settle over night.
Porcupines spend a considerable amount of time inside hollow linden, yellow birch, and hemlock trees, as shown by the large piles of droppings noted at the lower openings of numerous such hollow trees.
Droppings were found in a leather leaf bog, and a hare was seen at the edge of a black spruce--tamarack bog.
Near Gogebic Lake in Ontonagon County droppings were found in wet hardwood forest, in a thick growth of aspen and white birch saplings, and in an extensive tamarack bog.
We ask why history is not continuous; why there are these strange hiatuses and droppings out?
All their droppings are removed from near the tents, and piled in heaps; as these animals, unlike their masters, will not sleep amid such dirt.
Our fires were made of dry yak droppings which soon burn out with a fierce flame, and much black smoke; they give a disagreeable taste to whatever is cooked with them.
For their drink, give them the droppingsof good Ale or good Beer.
If you can find a log, with one end lying in the water, examine same and if there are muskrat droppings on the log, cut a notch for the trap, so that it will be just under water when set in the notch.
At the landing places the droppings will be found, and they may be distinguished from those of other animals from the large proportions of fish bones and scales.
If the den is inhabited by skunks one will usually find black and white hairs clinging to the mouth of the den, also will be likely to find a pile of droppings somewhere near, and to one side of the entrance.
Few signs are seen when the ground is bare but in the dark, sheltered ravines, the droppings may sometimes be seen on the logs, resembling those of the mink, but somewhat larger.
In early fall one may see the droppings of the fox along the old wood roads and stock paths, and they may be distinguished from those of the dog by the remains of apples and other fruits which are found there.
Other signs are the droppings on the logs which extend into the water; the dens with an accumulation of grass at the entrance; also the scratch signs on the bank, the feed beds, houses, etc.
About the outlets or inlets of lakes and ponds, and at the log-jams or drifts on the stream one may sometimes find small, slender pointed droppings on the stones or logs.
Square nests, fourteen inches each way and at least a foot from the droppings platform, are satisfactory.
The slanting sides afford no lodging for droppings and as only one bird at a time can perch on so small a place, quarrelling is avoided.
So if you have a garden or can dispose of your fertilizer every day or two you can make something extra on this by-product by a semi-weekly cleaning of roosts and droppings board.
The droppings should be cleaned up often and right here a word to the wise.
On the fourth day it is best to change the beds, as the droppings from the worms and the litter of uneaten leaves are not healthy for the moulting caterpillars.
The droppings contained very few bacteria, and it was specially remarkable that the intestines had not the slightest smell of putrefaction.
Observe when mother earth is dry, She drinks the droppings of the sky; And then the dewy cordial gives To every thirsty plant that lives.
Early, in "How to Grow Mushrooms," lays great stress on the importance of gathering the droppings in a dry state.
Excellent crops are gathered from beds made with ordinary stable manure, droppings and long materials mixed as they come; but when the manure is used as it comes from the stable, it should be allowed to ferment before being used.
It would seem to be simply spawn that has spread through the thoroughly amalgamated droppings of a mill-track.
That carefully picked droppings are not essential, though they may be more convenient.
These droppings are trampled by the horses, and mixed with straw broken up with the manure by the passage of the horses.
For example, it is quite common in good gardens to see the droppings collected carefully in some shed, or in the mushroom-house, and turned over almost as tenderly and carefully as the contents of the fruit-room.
Horse-droppings the chief part, cowdung a fourth, and the remainder loam.
The beds were formed much in the usual way from the droppings of highly fed horses.
The fresher the horse-dung is, the longer the crop will last and every gardener who makes up beds with unheated droppings knows how superior they are to fermented manure.
Fresh horse-droppings mixed with short litter the greater part, cowdung one third, and the rest mould or loam.
The nests and the cliffs in their vicinity are thickly whitewashed with the droppings of the birds.
However, the Sitaris remains still a fortnight in the intact shell, ejecting at intervals white droppings of uric acid, which it pushes back together with the shreds of its last two sloughs, those of the tertiary larva and of the nymph.
When its rations are finished the larva remains a few days in a motionless condition, ejecting from time to time a few reddish droppings until the digestive canal is completely cleared of its orange-coloured pulp.
Boundless and beautiful as the goodness of God is in itself; yet, through the strainers of his theology, is it made to descend in partial and scanty droppings merely, and not in one universal shower.
Fresh droppings told him that Reynolds had won clear.
Fairly fresh horsedroppings showed that the buckboard had held to its course and, the rock passed, the trail showed plain again, curving in toward the broken wall of the mesa, leading toward a cleft that was plainly distinguishable.
A similar jumble of more or less everything found near the nest forms, as we know, the barricade of the Manicate Cotton-bee, who is also an adept at using the Snail's stercoral droppings after these have been dried in the sun.
With her droppings she fashions masterpieces of marquetry and mosaic, which wholly conceal their base origin from the onlooker.
Through its loose-meshed stuff, it seizes one by one the droppings hanging from the scaffold and inlays them firmly in the tissue.
I have enough portable feeding coops with wire bottoms and droppings pans underneath to enable me to feed, in all, about one thousand chickens at one time.
I fatten my chickens in coops the floors of which are made of heavy wire having one-inch mesh; underneath the wire is a droppings pan, which is emptied every day.
And here's London's garden of pines, bananas, oranges; all the droppings of the Hesperides here!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "droppings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crap; droppings; dung; feces; filth; manure; movement; muck; ordure; sewage; shit; stool; turd
