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They had bootlegged meat, fowl, milk, cheese, potatoes, eggs. To obtain these edibles they had forged government food cards wholesale. Guilty of "private trading," they had incurred what Soviet citizens call "the highest measure of social defense": execution...
...York opened the World Poultry Congress at London amid so many sounds that his ov,n slight stutter passed unnoticed. Aged 34 and father of one, H. R. H. genially inspected and praised "The Grandmother of English Hens," a venerable bird just seven years his junior. Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl...
Last year he had joined the chorus and, like the unhappy swain in the mouthwash advertisements, received no answer. This year he refused to waste his breath. Reason: he is the world's last heath cock. All his fellows and all heath hens are dead. This heath fowl, a North American grouse, is a close relative of the prairie chicken and about the same size. A mottled grey, his protective coloring makes him practically invisible among the scrub oaks which he frequents. Plenteous 75 years ago, the birds dwindled until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they...
...Racine, Wis., two armed men were hired to guard the zoo against persons who had loosed a skunk, blinded a seal, strangled several rare fowl, chased 14 monkeys from their cages, shot four raccoons...
...year, the A. S. P. C. A. examined 109,438 horses, to make sure that they were not lame, sore, unfed, overloaded, raced, abused or neglected. Horses and dogs are the main concern of the Society, though it views with alarm any neglect or abuse of cats, mistreatment of fowl, cruelty to performing monkeys, the improper caging of trained bears, failure to water circus lions, the skinning alive of rabbits. Its active members are apt to be businessmen, lawyers, smart sporting people, animal fanciers. Its president is Frank K. Sturgis. Onetime president of the National Horse Show, onetime president...