Agriculture of Maine Volume 2 ; annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine
Автор:Maine. Dept. of Agriculture Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 156 ISBN: 1236166485 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...would keep themselves warm. From fear that the air would be foul, the closet was not made very close and it froze in there quite hard during the cold nights and the results were that the birds did not commence laying much until March. The house did not have glass windows, but the front wall had four frame curtains similar to those covering the front of the roosting closet. These cloth covers were 3 by 10 feet in size and came down to within a foot and a half of the floor. This, we think, is too low, as the wind blew in directly on to the birds, when the curtains were up, during the day. In one half of this building, in Pen No. 1, 90 May hatched Barred Plymouth Rock pullets were put, and daily egg records kept with them for eleven months. In the other half, in Pen No. 2, 60...
