hennery
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henneries
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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 hennery too, and the conservatory, were highly ornamental, distributed as they were about the grounds;—but it is too early to speak of these, which were not finished till another year.
From Bertie's Home or, the Way to be Happy by Madeline Leslie
A little after midnight I was awakened by a clamor from the poultry, and suspecting either two or four footed thieves, I was soon covering the hennery with my gun.
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
From near the end of this west pipe a 1-1/2-inch pipe was carried due north through the centre of the five-acre lot set apart for the hennery, and into the fields beyond.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by John Williams Streeter
I’ll buy and start a hennery to stump the world.
From Dorothy on a Ranch by Evelyn Raymond
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 James Herbert Walker
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 Edward Lucas White
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 Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
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 Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
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