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Vol. I. 



September, IDOl. 



JVo, 9 



AMERICAN OSTRICH FARMS. 



a thousand Os- 



Nearly 



triches, the descendents of 

 African imports, are vege- 

 tating in CaHfornia and Ar- 

 izona at this writing. A 

 pair of these creatures have 

 been known in California 

 to hatch thirty-seven chicks 

 in one year; a brief reflec- 

 tion upon these figures with- 

 out a lively imagination will 

 in a very short time show 

 large prospective profits in 

 the culture of the American 

 Ostrich; experience, the 

 best teacher, shows that 

 this rate cannot by any 

 means be depended upon, 

 but that different localities 

 even in the same district 

 affect very seriously the 

 health of this strange spec- 

 imen of the bird creation. 

 Cold winds and the want 

 of green food are often fatal 

 to the Ostrich young; even 

 the embryo is not free from 



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