and quality of plumage to the Cassoway of New 

 Zealand, the Rhea of South America, or the Emu 

 of Australia, and is the kind bred on the Southern 

 California ostrich farms at Anaheim and Fall 

 Brook. 



The first successful ostrich farms were those of 

 the Cape in Africa, which started about 30 years 

 ago. Later Madam Carriere established a series of 

 ostrich parks at Kouba, Algiers, views of which 

 were drawn by M. L,ouis Say, and which, through 

 the courtesy of Messrs. Munn & Co. of the Scien- 

 tific American, we reproduce here. Some idea of 

 the development of ostrich culture may be drawn 

 from the fact that the number of adult birds on the 

 Cape farms in 1865 was 85; in 1875, 32,000; in 

 1879, 160,000. 



E;. & c. VON CUUN, 



Publishers of 



" The Art of Incubating and Brooding" 

 Price $1.00. 



DELAWARE CITY, , 1894. 



Dear Sir: We wish to illustrate the different kinds of 

 incubators, brooders and poultry appliances. Will you 

 please send us cut or cuts of your machine or machines, 

 together with directions for operating and your catalogue. 

 No cut to be larger than 3 by 3 inches. 

 Please be prompt, as we are ready and waiting. 

 Yours respectfully, 



B. & C. VON CUUN. 



The above letter was mailed to forty manufacturers 



of incubators. We presume they all received it, 



as none were returned, though our printed address 



was on each envelope. We waited a month. Five 



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