LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



old friend's exceptional alertness in matters that 

 appealed to him. 



During his long and industrious life he had 

 accumulated an enormous fund of information 

 on various subjects and, endowed with a splendid 

 memory, he was a singularly interesting and 

 informing companion. It would be difficult to 

 mention a subject upon which he was ignorant ; 

 and his information was as accurate as it was 

 extensive. 



I found common ground with him in our ideas 

 on the best method of treating game and poultry 

 — live stock of all kinds, in fact. He was, like 

 myself, a convinced believer in the wisdom of 

 allowing bird and animal to lead, as far as 

 possible, a life that conforms to natural conditions. 

 I think the method pursued at Elsenham with 

 turkeys, birds generally considered delicate and 

 difficult to rear, was the first point of the kind 

 that revealed the identity of our views. The 

 practice at Elsenham has always been to let 

 the turkeys run in the pheasant coverts where 

 they nest and hatch out their eggs without 

 artificial shelter, roosting in the trees all the 

 year round, leading thus a natural life. Compared 

 with the turkey reared in the farmyard, we get 

 birds plumper, and with better developed breasts ; 

 the latter, as Tegetmeier at once pointed out, 

 a result of the greater use they make of their 

 wings under these conditions. 



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