...one employed in the concerns of a farm-yard, that, if the obtuse extremity of an egg be perforated with the point of the smallest needle, (a stratagem which malice not unfrequently suggests), its generating process is arrested, and it perishes like the subventaneoufs egg. Hence sir Busick Harwood...

...employed in the concerns of the farm-yard, — that if the obtuse extremity of an egg be perforated with the point of the smallest needle (a stratagem which malice not unfrequently suggests) its generating process is arrested, and it perishes like the subvenlaneus egg. Hence Sir Busick Harwood...

...employed in the concerns of the farm-yard, — that if the obtuse extremity of an egg be perforated with the point of the smallest needle (a stratagem which malice not unfrequently suggests) its generating process is arrested, and it perishes like the subventaneus egg. Hence Sir Busick Harwood...

...membrane. One important part of the egg which we have not hitherto noticed is the air-bag, orfolliculus aeris of the anatomists, placed at the larger end,...suggests) the egg cannot be hatched, but perishes. i From the air-bag being thus placed at the blunt end of the egg, important signs may be taken to distinguish...

...membrane. One important part of the egg, which we have not hitherto noticed, is the air-bag, or folliculus aeris of the anatomists, placed at the larger end,...perishes. Instead of one rudimental egg falling from the ovarium,two may be detached, and will of course be enclosed in the same shell, when the egg will be...

...bird in new-laid eggs, but is increased as much as ten times in the process of hatching. This air bag is of such great importance to the development of...egg be pierced with the point of the smallest needle the egg cannot be hatched, but perishes. From the air bag being thus placed at the blunt end of the...

...process of hatching. The air bag is of such great importance to the development of the chicken — probably by supplying it with a limited atmosphere...be pierced with the point of the smallest needle, the egg cannot be hatched. Instead of one rudimental egg falling from the ovarium, two may be detected,...

...enlarges to ten times that size during the process of incubation. " This air-bag," says Mr. Dickson, " is of such great importance to the development of...limited atmosphere of oxygen, that if the blunt end of the egg be pierced with the point of the smallest needle (a stratagem which malice not unfrequently...

...enlarges to ten times that size during the process of incubation. " This air-bag," says Mr. Dickson, " is of such great importance to the development of...limited atmosphere of oxygen, that if the blunt end of the egg be pierced with the point of the smallest needle (a stratagem which malice not unfrequently...