hennery
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If the agency quit, egg prices would sag to 15 or 20 cents, putting many a hennery out of business.
From Time Magazine Archive
The common opinion that the farm-raised hen that has free range is healthier or happier than her sister in a well-ordered hennery is not based on facts.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams
Whoever had ventured into the hennery had gotten into hot quarters and no mistake!
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks
A wood-shed," she suggested helpfully, "or a nicely swept-out hennery.
From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell
He proposed to capture a number of the fowls, bring them to Haven Glade, and there establish a hennery.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley
These trade fancies take their origin in the circumstances of there being large henneries in the respective localities producing the particular class of eggs.
From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
After looking over the last details of the toolsheds and henneries we were riding home under the over-arching elms down Bran Lane.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas
The few new laid lots received direct from henneries command extreme prices—sometimes working out in a small way above any figures that could fairly be quoted as a wholesale value.
From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
These and the barnyards' manure and the dirt from henneries and swamps that were swept by the waters have all been carried down into the Allegheny River.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert
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