The Canadian farm annual for 1880 published in Connection with the Weekly Mail (1880)
Weekly Mail, Toronto · Toronto, The Mail 88 p. illus. 22 cm · leaf 68
oil, and with ample shelter to which they can resort during showers. Insuch circumstances they will do well, and repay the owners by an ample supply ofeggs. CREVECCEURS. 69 CREVECCEURS. This breed has been the longest known in England, and is one of the most pre-ferred in France for the quantity… … especially in the hens, which appear almost as if they were creeping about on theground. In accordance with this conformation, their motions are very quiet anddeliberate, and they appear the most contented in confinement of any fowls weknow. They do not sit, or very rarely, and are tolerable layers…
Farmhouses · Agriculture
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