. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Ursus Plymouth Rock Cock largely profitable, but only at the cost of our■personal care and labor. The first thing to bedone is to procure a good breed. Personsignorant of the business look for advertise-ments in poultry journals, which are often THE GALLINACEOUS TRIBES 22^ useless or worse than useless. Not onl) farms can be j;ained from the fact Uiat one merchantbut also whole villages have been depopulated of Aix-la-Chapelle receives weekly, during theof poultry by the introduction in this way of summer season, twent) thousa
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Ursus Plymouth Rock Cock largely profitable, but only at the cost of our■personal care and labor. The first thing to bedone is to procure a good breed. Personsignorant of the business look for advertise-ments in poultry journals, which are often THE GALLINACEOUS TRIBES 22^ useless or worse than useless. Not onl) farms can be j;ained from the fact Uiat one merchantbut also whole villages have been depopulated of Aix-la-Chapelle receives weekly, during theof poultry by the introduction in this way of summer season, twent) thousand pullets thusdiseased fowls. The damage thus caused inBelgium, Germany, and Holland, for instance,has amounted at times to millions of dollars,with the result that many persons, after beingduped in this wa\, ha\e abandoned the peasantry of Ital) and Hungary arelargely occupied in the raising of poultr\. Onthe vast plains of those countries the birdsgrow t|uickl\ and easih, and find all theirstomachs need. Merchants buy the pullets for. a trifle (five cents each), a price on which theItalian peasant finds that he makes a merchants have so-called poultr\- _\ardswhere the little creatures are piled up pell-mell. Fresh from the heaths and plains wherethey enjoyed full liberty, what wonder if theycontract diseases in these confined quarters,where they are fed on food to which they areunaccustomed ! Here, however, they remain tillorders come from other countries, to which theyare then dispatched in baskets, each basket con-taining fifty birds. The journey usually lastsfrom three to four days, and the condition inwhich the poor things arrive may be idea of the enormous trade that Italycarries on with the northern countries of Europe
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