. American ornithology for the home and school . HE DOG FANCIER. Established 1891. A MONTHLY KENNEL PUBLICATION. The oldest, most popular and most prosperousamateur kennel publication in America. Contains each month appropriate reading matter andillustrations of great valne to every owner of a dog. ^yid-Oertijerj get e,\cellent results, and the ratesare very low. Covers the entire United Statesand Canada, and if hes got a dog you are prettysure to reach him through The Dog Fancier. A sample copy will be sent free. Subscription price, 50c a year. EUGENE GLASS, Publisher, Battle Creek, Mich. Gui
. American ornithology for the home and school . HE DOG FANCIER. Established 1891. A MONTHLY KENNEL PUBLICATION. The oldest, most popular and most prosperousamateur kennel publication in America. Contains each month appropriate reading matter andillustrations of great valne to every owner of a dog. ^yid-Oertijerj get e,\cellent results, and the ratesare very low. Covers the entire United Statesand Canada, and if hes got a dog you are prettysure to reach him through The Dog Fancier. A sample copy will be sent free. Subscription price, 50c a year. EUGENE GLASS, Publisher, Battle Creek, Mich. Guide to Taxidermy. One hundred pages. Full of valuableinformation, with complete instructionshow to prepare and mount Birds, AnimaLlsaLrvd Fish ^ ^ ^ also a complete list of all North Ameri-can Birds, with prices of their eggs, andskins and mounted specimens; also anexhaustive line of Ornithologists, Oolo-gists and Taxidermists supplies, valu-able information for the amateur, recipes,etc. 35 CenU K. REED. A, WOFLCESTER. Vo/. /. JWo-dember, 1901, J^cll YOUNG OSTRICHES. California. Ostrich Farm (See Sept. No.)- The most interesting thing about the juvenile ostriches is the rapidity oftheir growth; they emerge from their ostrich shells the size of full grownducks and begin to eat the green alfalfa. This alone must be their dietfor several months, for dry food has been found to be very injurious toyoung ostriches. In Africa many thousand of the ostrich young perishfrom a disease termed yellow-liver, but this pest has not so far affectedthe American ostriches. Given plenty of grass and water they increasein height at the marvelous rate of twelve inches a month, so that in sixmonths they are nearly as tall as their parents, but by no means so mus-cular. While very young they are nightly housed in what are calledbrooders, consisting of long boxes about 30 inches wide and high and eightfeet long; in the morning after sunrise they are turned out upon the alfalf
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