Word: fowls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Transvaal, South Africa, one F. A. Welthagen, hunter, sat down on the banks of the Brak River to wait for guinea fowl. Seven lions appeared, drank. Welthagen raised his gun, shot one who was drinking, another who was regarding him, another who ran toward him, a fourth who retreated-all in two minutes...
...good turkey year was 1929 with its mild winter and dry summer. Husbandmen throughout the land raised the largest flock in a decade. Last week as the fowl began to move to market for the Thanksgiving trade, a surplus threatened. Retail prices in New York City, where 12,000,000 Ibs. of turkey will be consumed before Dec. 1, slid down to 50? per Ib.-15? under last year's price, with poultrymen fearful of further declines before...
...Vitamin A prevents the eye disease xerophthalmania; Vitamin B3 prevents beriberi in man and polyneuritis in fowl; Vitamin B2 prevents pellagra; Vitamin C prevents scurvy; Vitamin D prevents rickets; Vitamin E prevents sterility...
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...Shadyville, Ohio, one William Baker was arrested for chicken-stealing. A dressed chicken, discovered in his cistern, was taken in evidence. To preserve it for a September grand jury, the fowl was sent to an undertaker, embalmed...