But unless the price of the cattle be sufficient to pay both the rent and profit of cultivated land, the farmer cannot afford to pasture them upon it; and he can still less afford to feed them in the stable.
If you are very gentle you can stroke the backs of the little ones as they sit waiting for the old birds to feed them.
She said they would fly against the logs of the house and call till she went out to feed them.
After I left the mountain they became still more familiar, and, I am told, would gather in the trees at daybreak and call until the family went out to feed them.
The farmer of course gets his machine made, turns off the fifty men, who may starve or emigrate at their choice, and now he can keep half of the produce of his estate, which formerly went to feed them, all to himself.
The people of South Carolina, instead of feeding Lee's army, will now call on Lee to feed them.
The residence here of a poor population would compel us, sooner or later, to feed them or to see them starve under our eyes.
The males begin to warble even before their tails are quite grown: if the father and mother are taken at the same time as the young ones, they will, when caged, continue to feed them as before.
It is very rare for young birds which are brought up by their parents to suffer from this disease, as they never over-feed them.
Three of the young after leaving this nest were secured, and their mother was caught to feed them, which she did successfully, and I brought them all, and three others, home with me to England.
He soon got tired of that, and at last refused to feed them at all.
Three or four hungry nestlings can keep both father and mother busy from morning till night, hunting for caterpillars and beetles and grubs and other things to feed them.
To feed them safely, a shelf must be placed out of the reach of cats and bad boys.
I do not mean to have them to rustle for their own living, but to feed them well, house and care for them in all weather, particularly in stormy weather.
It isn't, of course, necessary actually to feed people, or even to promise to feed them, to own them.
It is difficult to feed them, and I hope they will be exchanged soon.
Many thousands of recruits can be sent forward, and meat enough to feed them.
The President still says that many of the government officers and employees must be sent away, if transportation cannot be had to feed them here as well as the armies.
The enemy cannot take care of the negroes--and to feed them in idleness would produce a famine North and South.
It was last year, early in the autumn, that I went out with the pan into the front yard to feed them, and walked down the stone steps, calling the pigeons all the way, while they flew after me.
They had taken their baskets with some crusts of bread and some parsley, for they thought they should like to feed them.
Every morning and every afternoon I feed them myself, and they are so tame they eat out of my hand, or out of the basin when I hold it for them.
Mr Gilpin at his house in the New Forest on one occasion, his lordship observed three cows feeding in a small paddock, which he knew to be all that Mr Gilpin had to feed them in.
I just hate to go in to feed them, they make such a fuss, and I'm afraid some of 'em will bite me.
We can take the broken buns andfeed them to Skyrocket and Top, and Mr. Nip and Jack will eat them, too," he said to his father.
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