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FOULTBY FA TTENINO. 



objectionable method, and it is certainly one that ought 

 never to be adopted by the producer. We have 

 often seen a plucker strike sharp blows with a stick 



Pig, 20. — La Bbesse Dead Poultby. 

 (Ist Prize, Paris Shmc, 1893.) 



upon the back and breast of the fowl, but not suffi- 

 ciently hard to break the breast-bone, the object of 

 doing so being to give the fowl as plump an appear- 

 ance as possible. As a rule all Surrey and Sussex 



