| | Uncle Natt Stevens of Forney in an
article on ostrich raising in
California in the Tribune says:
"An
ostrich farm is for the raising of ostriches and they are raised for the production
of their feathers and their feathers are for sale."
This is most remarkable,
in fact, nothing equals it. However he failed to tell us what the purchasers of
the feathers do with them. This is important. Uncle Natt does say, however, that
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"When the time comes to pluck their feathers the birds are stalled
and carefully blindfolded, for fear that the officiating clergyman may without
ceremony be kicked through the fence; as he becomes exceedingly angry while pulling
his feathers out and his kick is the most swift and dangerous ever excited among
the muscles and tendons of animal nature.
Now Uncle Natt, is it the bird that
becomes angry while the clergyman pulls his feathers, or is it the clergyman who
becomes angry while pulling his feathers, and is it the kick of the clergyman
that is the most swift and dangerous ever excited among the muscles and tendons
of animal nature. If it's the clergyman that does all this they must have queer
preachers in California. And they must be kickers from Kickersville. --
Kaufman
Sun.
The above humorous criticism by the Sun on Uncle Natt Stevens' article
that appeared in the TRIBUNE last week, was given to him for perusal.
Uncle
Natt stated that to be more explicit with those who cannot understand, in answer
to the first question, that the feathers are sold for various purposes too numerous
to mention. To the second, that in California the person that plucks the bird
of its feathers is called a clergyman, and they have to be very particular in
handling the bird or they will be kicked as it is the only means of defense the
ostrich has. He further stated that he thinks he "has fully explained all
the questions asked;" and to please tell the editor of the Sun to "Drag
it out of him."
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