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London, England, 1865-09-06 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 6.

Punic attention seems to be direcled more
expressly every day to the prsetio►l point of eco-
nomy of animal food. On every hand we bear
suggestions--some sensible and some impracticable
—about increasing production, or husbanding onr
actual resources, or trying experiments with new
articles of diet. The affair is everybody's business,
and it interests us all accordingly.
Between two and three years ago • great sen-
sation was caused by an elaborate account of •
vast poultry-rearing establishment near Paris,
under the management of a M. Soma.
We need not describe it, as the narrative of

the enterprise appeared in three or four
of the most esteemed and trusted of our agricul-
tural and economical journals, whence our readers
must have learned more than we could tell them
here. For months after, and even up to a few
weeks since, inquirers searched the neighbourhood
of Paris for M. Soak's establishment, and quea•

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tions were addressed from all quarters to the
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periodicals which had published the story, and at
this moment there are many persons in England

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who urge their neighbours to emulate the French
speculator, or propose to do it themselves some
day. But, alas !it is now too certain that the
story of " the French Hennery " is a hoax.
Whether the waggish inventor is French or English
he has had a great success. The excitement has
been not only vivid but lasting. One benefit,
however, which he probably did not contemplate,
has arisen out of his absurd trick. He has famili-
arised the minds of a multitude of English people

with the idea of • systematic and wholesale rearing
of poultry for the market. In this way only
can our anodern need of this article of diet be sip-

plied as it ought to be. For a long time now
farmers, pelsant proprietors in the old-faahioned
parts of the country, and cottager" have been ex-
horted and advised to turn their attention to the

rearing of fowls, They cannot, or they do not,
achieve any such production as we want; and the
time has evidently come when the matter mnat be
one of special enterprise, of somewhat the same
character as the scheme of the fabulous M. Soar,

The rage for fancy poultry which has marked re-
cent years is a good preparation for the thing being
well done whenever set about ; and our readers

will have seen, by a notice in our columns on the
31st ult., that the enterprise is now fairly taken
in hand by an association of "gentlemen of large
" means and high social standing." It is
their express object "to supplement our
" supply of beef and mutton by the breeding and
" rearing of poultry on improved principles, and on
" a scale of magnitude hitherto unknown in this
" country." We shall all wish them well, and
hope their colony of five acres at Bromley, in
Kent, will flourish ; and that the population thereof
will be healthy and plump, and a real blessing so
London. If it really reaches the number of

twenty thousand, as proposed, the metropolis must
find the difference in fresh eggs and cheaper fowls.
It may be hoped that the example will be followed,
both in the neighbourhood of London and over the
whole country, so that the price may come down
to a point which will bring poultry into a real
competition with butchers' meat. We hear from
the West of Ireland of fowls selling for sixpence,
and therefore not answering, while ill worth the
money ; and, on the other hand, here is a West-

end hotel offering to take 350 fat chickens per'
week at five shillings each. Between these ex-
tremes there is surely a wide range for rational
speculation, and room for a good hope of a supply
which shall come within the reach of the middle-
class purse, as naturally as beef and mutton do
when they are less than two-thirds of the present
price.
It will takel some time, however, to develop
this new resource. What is there that can be
done now t
If we were to seek counsel abroad, we should
get some very curious advice. From France, for
instance, we have a lecture about once a year
about our neglect of horseflesh. Reports (not
hoaxes) appear occasionally of savoury banquets
where this sublime meat is presented in various
forma, each better than the rest, and all incompa-
rable. But it is all no use here. The British
farmer first treats it as a joke, and next observes
that it must be a very dear meat. He supposes
stiff old horses would not serve ; and we have
something else to do with the young ones than to
eat them. Again, there is • prodigious rage in
Paris just now for a particularly plump and nutri-
tious kind of snail, which is cultivated
as carefully as oysters, eaten more eagerly,
and declared to be twice as nourishing. This
article will not suit us, any more than
the traditional frog. Indeed, the frog is the more
probable of the two, as we do not know it from
tender chicken, whereas we could scarcely mistake
snails for oysters ; but then, the particular breed
of frogs goes no way in supplying an actual
scarcity of meat—whioh is the consideration at
the moment. The French peasantry have taken
• deplorable course, for many years, under their
inability to pay the price of meat. They have
killed off the small birds, to make pies and stews,
till they have rendered their land barren from the
ravages of vermin. We have had frequent occa-
sion to denounce the mischief of our sparrow
clubs ; but we trust our rural labourers will never
be guilty of such a folly as destroying oar small
birds for food, under any market price of meat.
Our English conscience is not altogether clear in
this matter, it is true. There was a time, about
thirty years since, when there was a rags
for lark-puddings among our epicurean class,
and when the boning of larks was an art
cultivated by the female members of the
butcher's family. We are rather ashamed
now to look back to that fashion; and wa had