The Pleasures and Profits of Our Little Poultry FarmChapman & Hall, 1879 - 95 pagine |
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Parole e frasi comuni
asparagus autumn beans bee-keeping began to lay birds black Spanish fowls blossoms borage Brahma Brahma-pootra hens broccoli broods of chickens broody Brussels sprouts celery chalk cock Corisande Corisande's corn cost cottage disposed dwelling-place early eight eightpence enjoyment expense ferns five pounds five shillings flowers fourpence freehold French beans garden green-beans ground grow Hampshire hatched hives honey Houdans hundred eggs hundredweight keep labour land LITTLE POULTRY FARM look mayduke meadow metheglin months old moulting neighbours nests Osmunda ourselves paid perch plants pleasure plumage pootra poultry-farming produce profit pullets purchase Rearing rustic scarcely season settings of eggs seven and sixpence shillings a couple shillings a setting sold soon Spanish hens speculation spleenwort spring stone fruit summer supply swarm of bees things Thoroughbred threepence tion twelve vegetables weather Whitsuntide wild wood-shed worth young Brahma-pootra young chickens
Brani popolari
Pagina 34 - A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.