Birds as Food 



May, fixed the prices of GAME and POULTRY 

 as follows : old HENS and young CHICKENS, 

 25. 4d. per Ib. ; old and young TURKEYS, 

 2s. 2d. ; GOSLINGS and GEESE, is. 4^. ; 

 DUCKLINGS and DUCKS, is. 6d. ; cock PHEA- 

 SANTS, 55. Sd. each ; hen PHEASANTS, 55. zd. ; 

 old PARTRIDGES, is. gd., young, 35. 6d. ; 

 old GROUSE, 2s. 6d., young, 55. (The Times, 

 25.v.i8). The Ministry of Food, in July, 

 issued regulations regarding the disposal of 

 GAME. The owner, or occupier, of a shoot- 

 ing was held responsible for detaching the 

 appropriate number of coupons from his food 

 card, as a " self-supplier/' for GAME consumed 

 by his household, and it was made incum- 

 bent on any purchaser or recipient of GAME 

 to do the same, but under a different cate- 

 gory, as a receiver of " direct supplies." The 

 scale established for a "self-supplier " was : 

 PHEASANT, WILD DUCK, GUINEA-FOWL, 

 CAPERCAILZIE, one coupon for each two birds ; 

 GROUSE, PARTRIDGE, BLACKGAME, WIGEON, 

 one coupon for each four birds ; TEAL, 

 PTARMIGAN, WOODCOCK, one coupon for each 

 eight birds ; PLOVER, one coupon for each 



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