FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. i, 1908. 
162 
SIXTY-THREE YEARS AGO 
“Bill” Hamilton, then 20 years of age, set out from St. 
Louis Mo., with seven other free trappers under the 
leadership of old Bill Williams. Seven of these eight 
m« are dead, but Hamilton still lives out in Montana 
and still sets his traps. He has written the story- of his 
early trapping days, and the book has been published. 
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MY SIXTY YEARS ON 
THE PLAINS 
By W. T. HAMILTON 
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OSTRICH FARMING IN CUBA. 
Mr. Edwin V. Morgan, American minister t< 
Cuba, in writing that an experiment in ostricl 
farming has recently been started at Marianac 
near Habana, furnishes the following particular 
of this new industry on the island: 
The farm contains about twenty-seven acres 
with shelters for the birds in inclement weathe 
and a house for the employees. The land i 
divided into large pens for the younger bird 
and smaller ones for each pair of breeders. Ther 
is also a salesroom, where ostrich feathers ar 
sold; not, however, necessarily the product o 
the farm. There are now forty-eight ostriche 
there, twenty-three of which were imported fror 
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cubation is about forty-two days. The youn 
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brooder house. At the age of six months they ar 
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clement weather until they arrive at the age c 
about twenty months. They are fed on a mix 
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of which is imported from the United State - 
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constipation. They never have been known I 
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entirely dead and are drawn without pai-n to ti 
bird. I ! 
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the market. The yield of an adult male bird 
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on entering the United States. There are tv 
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