. The Farm-poultry . March. * . 19«6Breii. o~««4^ Conn. One ot C. P. Nettletons Light Brahmas. Scratchings from the Litter of OurExchange Table. MR. H. G. ETVART, in the Illus-trated Poultry Record, attempts acomparative analysis of Englishand American poultry keepers. He be-gins with the assumption of Englishsuperiority in everything, and ends with amild rebuke to Americans for presumingto take the attitude (derived, by the way,largely from our English ancestry), ofconsidering their own productions betterthan those to be found elsewhere. J* Before attempting


. The Farm-poultry . March. * . 19«6Breii. o~««4^ Conn. One ot C. P. Nettletons Light Brahmas. Scratchings from the Litter of OurExchange Table. MR. H. G. ETVART, in the Illus-trated Poultry Record, attempts acomparative analysis of Englishand American poultry keepers. He be-gins with the assumption of Englishsuperiority in everything, and ends with amild rebuke to Americans for presumingto take the attitude (derived, by the way,largely from our English ancestry), ofconsidering their own productions betterthan those to be found elsewhere. J* Before attempting such an analysis awriter should be tolerably familiar withhis subject, but we find little evidence inMr. Ewarrs remarks of an intimateknowledge of poultry culture in this coun-try. He believes That, whereas the main-spring of our own fancy is competition, themainspring of the American fancy i s pro-gression. * * * were competition taken fromthe one the whole fabric would collapse likea pack of cards, all initiative and


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