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1. The Care of Our Farm Animals (continued)

   

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   weather the eggs are sprinkled with lukewarm water every few days. When they are ten days set they are tested. This is done with a lighted candle in the hen-house after dark. The egg is held length-ways between one finger and thumb and then the person looks through the egg. If it is clear it is infertile and if it is dark it is fertile.

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2. The Care of Our Farm Animals

   

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   At home we have three cows three calves one goat and a donkey. The cows have got names one is "Sandy" another Butt another Curley. When I go for them in the evening they come running to me when I call them. When driving them I say thirish and when I put them up I say "billup" to your place. The cows are tied to a stake in the byre. In it there are place for three cows. The stake is made of wood and it is a chain that slides up and down when the cow moves. The cows are tied by the neck. Long ago they were tied by the legs and horns. Some of the cows are tied by ropes or leather. When a young cow is tied in first she is tied by a rope to the stake.
   There is no emblem or branch hung outside the walls of the house but in other places

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