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The complete English gardener: or, gardening made perfectly easy: containing full and plain directions for the proper management of the flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, for every month in the year. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a Manner, that all who are desirous of managing a Garden, may do it effectually, without any other Instructions whatever. To which is added, the complete bee-master; or, Best Method for managing Bees, Both for Profit and Pleasure. Together with the whole Art of breeding and rearing Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Turkies, Pigeons, and Rabbits. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, Particularly such as insest Houses, Gardens, Dairies, Barns, Bees, Poultry; Rules to judge of the Weather, and several other Articles equally useful, &c. &c. By Samuel Cooke, Gardener, At Overton, in Wiltshire; Who has practised Gardening, through all its Branches, in many Counties, upwards of Forty Years.
Cooke, Samuel.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The complete English gardener: or, gardening made perfectly easy: containing, full and plain directions for the proper management of the flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, for every month in the year. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a Manner, that all who are desirous of managing a Garden, may do it effectually, without any other Instructions whatever. To which is added, the complete bee-master; or, Best Method of managing Bees, both for Profit and Pleasure. Together with the whole Art of breeding and rearing Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Turkies, Pigeons, and Rabbets. Likewise plain instructions for destroying vermin, particulary such as insest Houses, Gardens, Dairies, Barns, Bees, Poultry, Rules to judge of the Weather, and several other Articles equally useful, &c. &c. By Samuel Cooke, Gardener, At Overton in Wiltshire; Who has practised Gardening, [thro'] all its branches, in many counties, upwards of Forty Years.
Cooke, Samuel.Date: [1770?]- Books
Why geese don't get obese (and we do) : how evolution's strategies for survival affect our everyday lives / Eric P. Widmaier.
Widmaier, Eric P.Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
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The geese stript of their quills: or, proposals for depluming and rusticating the rival literati. With an impartial examination into some important concerns.
Date: 1753- Books
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The complete grazier: or, gentleman and farmer's directory. Containing the best instructions for buying, breeding, and feeding cattle, sheep and hogs, and for suckling lambs. A Description of the particular Symptoms, commonly attending the various Distempers to which Cattle, Sheep, and Hogs are subject; with the most approved Remedies. Directions for making the best Butter, several Sorts of Cheese, and Rennet. Different Methods of stocking a Grass Farm, with the particular Expence and Profit of each. How to prepare the Land, and sow several Sorts of Grass Seeds to Advantage. Directions for raising proper Fodder for Cattle and Sheep. Particular Instructions for ordering, breeding, and feeding, Poultry, Turkeys, Pigeons, Tame Rabbits, Geese, Ducks, Bustards, Pea-Fowls, Pheasants and Partridges. Also Directions for making Fish Ponds or Canals, and for storing them, and ordering the Fish in the best Manner. With several other useful and curious Particulars. Written by a country gentleman, and originally designed for private use.
Country Gentleman.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The complete grazier: or, gentleman and farmer's directory. Containing the best instructions for buying, breeding and feeding cattle, sheep and hogs, and for suckling lambs. A Description of the particular Symptoms, commonly attending the various Distempers to which Cattle, Sheep, and Hogs are subject; with the most approved Remedies. Directions for making the best Butter, several Sorts of Cheese, and Rennet. Different Methods of stocking a Grass Farm, with the particular Expence and Profit of each. How to prepare the Land, and sow several Sorts of Grass Seeds to advantage. Directions for raising proper Fodder for Cattle and Sheep. Particular Instructions for ordering, breeding and feeding Poultry, Turkeys, Pigeons, Tame Rabbets Geese, Ducks, Bustards, Pea-Fowls, Pheasants and Partridges. Also Directions for making Fish Ponds or Canals, and for storing them, and ordering the Fish in the best Manner. With several other useful and curious Particulars. Written by a country gentleman, and originally designed for private use.
Country Gentleman.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The complete grazier: or, gentleman and farmer's directory. Containing the best instructions for buying, breeding, and feeding cattle, sheep and hogs, and for suckling lambs. A Description of the particular Symptoms, commonly attending the various Distempers to which Cattle, Sheep, and Hogs are subject; with the most approved Remedies. Directions for making the best Butter, several Sorts of Cheese, and Rennet. Different Methods of stocking a Grass Farm, with the particular Expence and Profit of each. How to prepare the Land, and sow several Sorts of Grass Seeds to Advantage. Directions for raising proper Fodder for Cattle and Sheep. Particular Instructions for ordering, breeding, and seeding, Poultry, Turkeys, Pigeons, Tame Rabbits, Geese, Ducks, Bustards, Pea-Sowls, Pheasants and Partridges. Also Directions for making Fish Ponds or Canals, and for storing them, and ordering the Fish in the best Manner. With several other useful and curious Particulars. Written by a country gentleman, and originally designed for private use.
Country Gentleman.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
Sacred cows and golden geese : the human cost of experiments on animals / C. Ray Greek and Jean Swingle Greek ; foreword by Jane Goodall.
Greek, C. Ray.Date: 2000- Books
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The farmer's wife; or complete country housewife. Containing full and ample directions for the breeding and management of turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. Instructions for fattening hogs, pickling of Pork, and curing of Bacon. How to make Sausages, Hogs-Puddings, &c. Full Instructions for making Wines from various Kinds of English Fruits, and from Smyrna Raisins. The Method of making Cyder, Perry, Mead, Mum, Cherry-Brandy, &c. Directions respecting the Dairy, containing the best Way of making Butter, and likewise Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Stilton, Sage, and Cream Cheese, &c. How to pickle common English Fruits and Vegetables, with other useful Receipts for the Farmer's Wife and Country House-Keeper. Full Instructions how to brew Beer and Ale, of all the various Kinds made in this Kingdom. Ample Directions respecting the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey. To which is added the art of breeding and managing song birds in General: Likewise a Variety of receipts in Cookery, And other Particulars well worthy the Attention of Women of all Ranks residing in the Country.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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The compleat farmer: or, the whole art of husbandry. Containing I. Instructions for stocking a Farm to advantage. II. Of the Breeding and Management of Horses, Mares, Colts, &c. and the most approved Receipts in Farriery for all Manner of Diseases they are subject to. III. Of Bulls, Cows, Calves, Oxen: How to make the greatest Advantage of them, how to know when they are ill, and Receipts to cure all their Disorders. IV. Of breeding Sheep, and Receipts for their Diseases. V. Of Goats. VI. Of Swine, and how so make whom turn out very advantageous. Of feeding them and fattening them for Bacon. Receipts to cure the Gargut, Measles, and all their other Disorders. VII. Of wild and tame Rabbits. Of Dogs. VIII. Of Fowls. Of curing their Maladies. To fatten Chickens. IX. The best Method of managing Geese, Ducks, Turkies, Pigeons, Bees, &c. X. Of making Hay. XI. Of the several Sorts of Grass, Seeds; &c. By Mr. Robert Brown, Of Hill-Farm, in Somersetshire.
Brown, Robert, of Hill Farm, Somersetshire.Date: [1759]- Books
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The compleat farmer: or, the whole art of husbandry. Containing I. Instructions for stocking a farm to advantage. II. Of the breeding and management of horses, Mares, Colts, &c. and the most approved Receipts in Farriery for all Manner of Diseases they are subject to. III. Of Bulls, Cows, Calves, Oxen: How to make the greatest Advantage of them, how to know when they are ill, and Receipts to cure all their Disorders. IV. Of breeding Sheep, and Receipts for their Diseases. V. Of Goats. VI. Of Swine, and how to make them turn out very advantageous. Of feeding them and fattening them for Bacon. Receipts to cure the Gargut, Measles, and all their other Disorders. Vii. Of wild and tame Rabbits. Of Dogs. Viii. Of Fowls. Of curing their Maladies. To fatten Chickens. IX. The best Method of managing Geese, Ducks, Turkies, Pigeons, Bees, &c. X. Of making Hay. XI. Of the several Sorts of Grass, Seeds, &c. By Mr. Robert Brown, Of Hill-Farm, in Somersetshire.
Brown, Robert, of Hill Farm, Somersetshire.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The farmer's wife; or the complete country housewife. Containing full and ample directions for the breeding and management of turkies, Fowls, Geese, Ducks, Pigeons, &c. Instructions for fattening hogs, pickling of Pork, and curing of Bacon. How to make Sausages, Hogs-Puddings, &c. Full Instructions for making Wines from various Kinds of English Fruits, and from Smyrna Raisins. The Method of making Cyder, Perry, Mead, Mum, Cherry-Brandy, &c. Directions respecting the Dairy, containing the best Way of making Butter, and likewise Gloucestershire, Cheshire, Stilton, Sage, and Cream Cheese. How to pickle common English Fruits and Vegetables, with other useful Receipts for the Country House-Keeper. Full Instructions how to brew Beer and Ale, of all the various Kinds made in this Kingdom. Ample Directions respecting the Management of Bees, with an Account of the Use of Honey. To which is added the art of breeding and managing song birds: Likewise a Variety of Receipts in Cookery, And other Particulars, well worthy the Attention of Women of all Ranks residing in the Country.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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The country gentleman's companion. Containing, I. Directions for the choice, Ordering, Dietting, and Breeding of Draft, Road, Hunting, and Running horses; the whole Art of Riding them; and the most approved Remedies for all the Diseases and Accidents they are subject to. II. The Ordering and Breeding of Bulls, Cows, Calves, Oxen, Sheep, Lambs, Goats, Swine, and Rabbets; and the best Remedies for the Cure of their respective Diseases. III. The fattening, cramming, and curing of Cocks, Hens, Capons, Chickens, Geese, and Turkies; and of feeding Swans, Pheasants, Partridges, Pidgcons, Quails, Doves, and other small Birds. IV. The Nature, Ordering, and Preservation of Bees. V. The Arts of Hunting, Coursing, Hawking, Angling, Fishing, and other Country Recreations; of curing Hawks, Hounds, &c. of ordering and making Fish-Ponds; and of taking and preserving Fish. VI. The Choice, Ordering, Breeding, and Dietting of Fighting-Cocks, both before and after Battle. Vii. A compendious gardener's kalendar, shewing what Work is to be done, monthly, in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower-Garden. By a country gentleman, From his own Experience.
Country Gentleman.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The compleat farmer: or, the whole art of husbandry. Containing, I. Instructions for stocking a farm to advantage. II. Of the breeding and management of horses, Mares, Colts, &c. and the most approved Receipts in Fariery for all Manner of Diseases they are subject to. III. Of Bulls, Cows, Calves, Oxen: How to make the greatest Advantage of them, how to know when they are ill, and Receipts to cure all their Disorders. IV. Of breeding Sheep, and Receipts for their Diseases. V. Of Goats. VI. Of Swine, and how to make them turn out very advantageous. Of feeding them and fattening them for Bacon, Receipts to cure the Gargut, Measles, and all their other Disorders. VII. Of wild and tame Rabbits. Of Dogs. VIII. Of Fowls. Of curing their Maladies. To fatten Chickens. IX. The best Method of managing Geese, Ducks, Turkies, Pigeons, Bees, &c. X. Of making Hay. XI. Of the several Sorts of Grass, Seeds, &c. By Mr. Robert Brown, Of Hill-Farm, in Somersetshire.
Brown, Robert, of Hill Farm, Somersetshire.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Poultry : a practical guide to the choice, breeding, rearing, and management of all descriptions of fowls, turkeys, guinea-fowls, ducks and geese for profit and exhibition / by Hugh Piper.
Piper, Hugh.Date: 1880- Books
Dentistry and folk art. X, "Les dindons et les oises" (The turkeys and the geese) / Gustave Doré ; from the private collection of, and with comments by, Bernard S. Moskow.
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883.Date: 1980- Books
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Piper's poultry : a practical guide to the choice, breeding, rearing, and management of all descriptions of fowls, turkeys, guinea fowls, ducks and geese,for profit and exhibition / by Hugh Piper.
Piper, Hugh.Date: 1889- Books
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The compleat husbandman and gentleman's recreation: or, the whole art of husbandry; Containing. I. Directions to Cure all Diseases in Horses, which are almost 300, with 12 Medicines only not of 12d cost. Also to Cure Oxen. Kine. Bulls. Calves, Sheep. Lambs. Goats. Swine. Dogs. Conies. Hares. Poultry. Geese. Ducks. Swans, &c. Pigeons. Singing Birds. Hawks. Deer, &c. To teach Dogs. II. Directions to Improve Land. Arable and Pasture. to Order Flax. Hemp. Saffron. Liquorice. Bees. Silk-Worms. and to make some new Invented Plows. III. To Brew Pale Ale and Beer, make Cyder equal to Canary, and not stand in 4d. charge per Quart, and to make Mead and Metheglin. IV. Of Planting and Raising Trees for Timber and Fruit, Grafting and Gardening, to order Clover and St. Foin. V. To destroy Moles, Foxes and other Vermin. VI. To Heal all diseases in Men or Women with Chew'd white Bread. Also a Pleasant and wholesome Drink for a Family, which will not cost a Farthing a Gallon, best for Young and Old, Rich and poor Sick and Well. VII. Directions in Angling. Fowling. Hawking. Hunting. Ringing, &c. By G. Markham Gent.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: 1707- Books
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The farmer. Comprehending the several most interesting objects and beneficial practices in the culture of wheat, rye, Barley, Oats, Buckwheat, Peas, Beans, Tares, Rape, Hemp, Flax, Weld, Turnips, Carrots, Potatoes, Cabbages, Clover, Lucerne, Saintfoin, &c. &c. &c. With the Application and Value of their Products, &c. Together with the Cultivation of Hops, Vines, Forest Trees, Fruit Trees, Kitchen and Flower Garden Productions. Likewise, directions in the breeding and improvement of horses, oxen, Cows, Calves, Sheep, Lambs, and Hogs; With Remarks for Purchasing, Feeding and Disposing of them to greatest Advantage; and the Methods of Preventing and Removing their most fatal Disorders. Also, rules for the treatment and rearing of poultry, viz. Pheasants, Turkeys, Geese, Fowl, Tame Rabbits, Pigeons, &c. And the ordering of bees, and their Labors. To which is prefixed, an introductory essay, calculated to give a clear and perspicuous view of the theory of agriculture, and its Progress from earliest Antiquity to the present Time. By Josiah Ringsted, Esq; Author of the Cattle Keeper's Assistant, or Complete Directory for Country Gentlemen, Sportsmen, Farmers, Graziers, Farriers, Game and Cow Keepers, Horse Dealers, Carriers, &c. and a Diary, containing Tables for the easier Arrangement of the Accounts, of the Business of Gardening, Cattle Keeping, Game Keeping, &c. &c.
Ringsted, Josiah, -1812.Date: [1781?]- Digital Images
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Temple offering of ducks, geese and wild fowl. From a wall relief at the temple at Kom Ombo in Southern Upper Egypt. This temple mostly dates from the Ptolemaic period although New Kingdom (1570-1070 BCE) remains have been found on the site.
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Felony. : whereas on Saturday night last, or early on Sunday morning, some evil disposed person or persons stole out from a pen-house, at the Old Park, in the parish of Stockton; five capital French geese, 14 ducks, and 26 fowls.
Date: 1819- Books
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The complete English farmer: or, husbandry made perfectly easy, in all its useful branches. Containing what every Farmer ought to know and practise. Among the various Articles treated of in this Work, are the following, viz. The Management and Qualities of the different Kinds of Grass, and making Hay. Description of the different Soils and of manuring and ploughing Land. The Cultivation and Management of Wheat and Barley. The Culture of Oats and Rye. Of the Farmer's Stock, &c. The best Methods of Breeding and rearing Colts, managing Horses and Mares, and of curing their numerous Diseases. The Art of rearing Calves and Lambs, together with the best Methods of managing Bulls, Oxen, Cows and Sheep, to make them turn out to the greatest Advantage. Also several excellent Receipts to cure the different Disorders they are subject to. The best and most approved Method of rearing Pigs, fattening Swine, and chusing the best Sort for breeding, and for curing all their Disorders. Of Breeding Rabbits to the best Advantage. The whole Art of rearing and managing Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Turkies and Pigeons, to make them turn out profitable to the Farmer, with choice Receipts to cure their several Distempers. The Management of Bees, both for Profit and Pleasure. The Cultivation of Turnips, Beans, Peas, Tares, Flax, and Hemp, &c. &c. &c. And other useful Articles, too numerous to mention in a Title Page. By George Cooke, Farmer, at West End, in Hertfordshire.
Cooke, George.Date: [1772?]- Pictures
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A Canada goose. Etching.
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Dame Trot : to market, to market went little Dame Trot, Sunlight Soap for mother the pretty maid got... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
Lever Brothers Ltd.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Books
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Robbery. Whereas, on Saturday night last, 25th. of October instant, the out-houses of Mr. Robert Haynes, of Upton Park, where entered and ten geese stolen thereout, and also from the Stable, a Leather Back-Band and Houseing. Whoever will discover the Thief, or Thieves, shall on Conviction of the Robbery, receive a reward of Two Guineas, From Mr. Haynes aforesaid.
Haynes, Robert, of Upton Park.Date: 1795]