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and the cottagers who keep birds are not by 

 any means typical tillers of the soil. Many 

 are boot operatives, others are skin -dressers 

 and mechanics. 



By now they have learnt many things in the 

 art of poultry-keeping at Street. They take 

 good care, for instance, that their male stock 

 birds are either of the Sussex, Faverolle, or 

 BufF Orpington breed, producing plump, 

 white -legged chickens, whilst the scraggy- 

 legged Leghorns are penalised to the extent 

 of placing an embargo of a penny a pound 

 less for their flesh. They do not trouble 

 about whether the eggs are white or brown ; 

 nevertheless, it happens that the birds I have 

 mentioned conveniently lay brown eggs. 



The Street poultry -keepers have learnt 

 too that the fox is their greatest enemy, and 

 a price of 5s. is placed on every fox's head, 

 which shows that the people here are not 

 among those who imagine that the British 

 Empire is dependent on fox-hunting for its 

 unique place among European nations. 



The secretary of the Society, Mr. William 

 Reynolds, after ten or twelve years' experience 

 with every breed of fowl, has come to the 

 conclusion that the two best all-round breeds 



