The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 57
is unable to break, anddrops much corn from his mouth in the inef-fectual attempt to break them. Beans shouldnot be merely split, but crushed; they willeven then give sufficient employment to thegrinders of the animal. Some postmasters usechaff with beans instead of oats. With hardly-worked horses… … This species differs very little in its generalappearance from the grey lag goose, the chiefdistinction between them being in the bill;which in this is small, much compressed nearthe end, whitish, and sometimes of a pale redin the middle, and black at the base andnail: the latter is shaped somewhat…
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