The mania did great service to the breeding and improvement ofpoultry by awakening an interest in the subject throughout the kingdom which has lasted.
It is impossible to imagine any occupation more suited to a lady, living in the country, than that of poultry rearing.
The scarcity of poultry in this country partly arises from all gallinaceous birds requiring warmth and dryness to keep them in perfect health, while the climate of Great Britain is naturally moist and cold.
Among those whom he has consulted he desires specially to acknowledge his obligations to Mr. Tegetmeier, whose "Poultry Book" (published by Messrs.
Until of late years the breeding of poultry has been almost generally neglected in Great Britain.
Land proper for sheep is generally also adapted to the successful keeping of poultry and rabbits.
Purees may be made in a similar manner of different sorts of meat, poultry &c.
Cold poultry may be larded with slips of the fat of cold boiled ham, and when not to be cooked again, it may be made to look very tastefully.
Godiveau is a very fine stuffing for poultry or wild fowl.
The slips for cold poultryshould be very small, scarcely thicker than a straw.
This poultryis in charge of the express messenger, and we have no right to take it without his license.
Stow tells that it was once known as Scalding Alley, because the poultry which the poulterers sold was scalded there.
Eggs were brought to market in baskets on men's backs, and poultryupon horses.
Double Poultry Feeding Trough with Partition in the Center.
I walked on a little, and met a man who was beating eggs to make a poultry yard.
Game and poultry may be potted in this manner VEAL.
Poultry should be always scalded in hot water to make the feathers come out easily.
Then add salt and cayenne pepper to your taste, and some good brown gravy of roast meat, poultry or game, thickened with a bit of butter rolled in flour that has first been browned by holding it in a hot pan or shovel over the fire.
When poultry or game is frozen, it should be brought into the kitchen early in the morning of the day on which it is to be cooked.
Half-grown poultry is comparatively insipid; it is best when full-grown but not old.
Put some grated crumbs of stale bread into a sauce-pan, and pour over them some of the liquor in which poultry or fresh meat has been boiled.
When poultry is young the skin is thin and tender, and can be easily tipped by trying it with a pin; the legs are smooth; the feet moist and limber; and the eyes full and bright.
In drawing poultry be very careful not to break the gall, lest its disagreeable bitterness should be communicated to the liver.
Poultry is best when killed overnight, as if cooked too soon after-killing, it is hard and does not taste well.
To enrich the gravy you may add the necks and other trimmings of whatever poultry you may happen to have; also the root of a tongue, if convenient.
To lard meat or poultry is to introduce into the surface of the flesh, slips of the fat only of bacon, by means of a larding-pin or larding-needle, it being called by both names.
It is doubtful if it pays a farmer, aye, even a poultry farmer, to shoot Hawks.
The Australian Goshawk is said to be the only troublesome Hawk to the poultry farmer, and he bears a bad name generally.
I saw poultry of the table breeds which we call Indian Game or Malay; the Japanese call them Siamese.
Chiba also contains more poultry than any other prefecture.
The discarded moths are cast out into the brilliant sunshine where they are eaten by poultry or are left to die and serve as manure.
Thanks to Fanny Field for her wise and instructive poultry writings.
An important bureau is the bureau of animal industry, which combats animal diseases and gives advice concerning the best breeds of poultry and cattle.
Often she is called upon, not only to rear a large family, but to cook and keep house for hired men, raise poultry and garden stuff, and even to help in the fields during the harvest season.
All kinds of poultry and pigs, although neither were in prime condition, could be imported at a much lower rate than they could be obtained from the country.
Poultry Compter—a dark, small, ill-aired dungeon—used as a House of Detention.
Poultry was seldom seen except at the tables of the very well to do.
Fish and poultryare sometimes excessively dear, and the quantities consumed are comparatively small.
Birds of the hawk-kind seldom lay more than two eggs; while poultry will produce from fifteen to thirty.
So they brought him forthwith nearly an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.
Strangers who hunt occasionally with a subscription pack where capping is not practised, are expected to contribute towards the Poultry or Damage Fund.
The quantities of eggs, fowl, and game which are needed to supply so many tables must be enormous; and as one sees very few live poultry anywhere, it has occasioned me surprise to think how they can be procured.
The Basse Cour and the poultry especially delighted her, and she had already prepared a ruled book which was to show in parallel columns the cost of feeding as compared with the result in chickens and eggs.
Stale poultry is flabby and shows a bluish color; it becomes green over the crop and abdomen, and the skin is already broken or easily pulled apart in handling.
Good poultry is firm to the touch, pink or yellowish in color, is fairly plump, and has a strong skin showing an unbroken surface.
It is that cattle and poultry become almost as much the property of my people as mine, because the finer the lot, the dearer it sells, and the larger the profit.
The proceeds from the poultry raised in the United States exceed those received from the wheat crop; strange as this statement may seem, the hen is a mighty asset.
For example, if you wished to find more about wheat, oats, poultry or cattle you would turn to other volumes of this cyclopedia and read the special article on the subject you were seeking.
Some poultry is found on nearly every farm, but there are numerous small farms which are devoted entirely to raising chickens, and when rightly managed, they prove a profitable investment.
To picture that cold pride so harsh and hard, Fancy a peacock in a poultry yard.
