Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-24
DOMESTIC.
Chinese I'm migration.

ApOnESIbts
Chinese Immigration.
WASHINGTON, January 2Si.-Willis O
Kentucky introduced bill in the House to
day to regulate and limit Chinese immigra
grafton.
Section one provides that the comm.
into or residence in The United State
OF Chinese laborers shall be unlawful. auc
shall be regulated and limited as hereinafte
provided.
Section two provides that Chinese sub
Jecss, whether coming to the Unit,
States as teachers, students, merchants. o.
for curiosity, together with their body an(
household servants, and laborers resident in
the United States on the 18th of November
1880, shall be allowed to go and come of thei,
own free will, and shall be accorded all the
privileges, immunities and exemptions which
ars accorded to citizens or subjects of the
more favored nations.
Section three invests the Secretary of the
Treasury with authority to carry into full
effect the foregoing provisions, and directs
that ofhcer to prescribe regulations for the
registration and Identification of all persons
named la section two. Said regulations shall.
among other things, provide for the oath "a
be administered TO immigrants By the Col.
lector of Customs or others personally
authorized. and the charge for the certificate
of such registry shall be S5.
Section four provides that any person max
ing false statement Of facts in the reaistra-
tion of any Chinese shall be deemed guilty of
perjury.
Section 5 provides that no master of any
vessel, owned in whole or in part by citizens
of the United States, or by citizens Of any
foreign country, shall take on board of sach
vessel at any port or place within the Chinese
Empire, or any other foreign port or place
whatever, any number exceeding five Chinese
laborers, with the intent of bringing them
into the United States. 1t makes any master
guilty of a violation of the above provision
liable to fine of $500 ard imprisonment for
not exceeding one year for each offense,
Section prescribes for list of passengers
to be made out by every master.
Section provides that the penalties herein
provided for shall be held as liens on the
vessel.
Section provides that nothing herein con.
tanned shall be held to repeal or to modify
the laws forbiddipg the importation of coolies
or females for immoral purposes.
Section declares that this Act shall take
effect sixty days after its passage, and notice
ernment.
Ostrich Farming.
CHICAGO, January 2Sl.-A Washington
special says: E. j.. Baker, .. S. Consul at
Buenos Ayres, has made study of ostrich
farming, and is so confident that the in
dustry would prove profitable in Californis,
Texas and most of the Southern States, thar
he has written chapter on the subject to the
State Department, which is printed in the
December number of the consular reports.
The details of such a unique business as
breeding ostriches are most interesting. The
ostrich, like almost every other creature of
the animal kingdom, thrive best where it OBJ.
tains the richest food So far as climate
is concerned, the bird thrives equally
well in the coast districts Of Car g
seen, and the lofty table lands of Frazer
burg, 600 feet above the level of the
sea, where the winters are bitterly cold, and
snow and ice cover the ground and waters.
They seem to be as comfortable in the DESC
late regions of Southern Patagonia as upon the
warm, luxuriant pampas of the Argentine
Republic. The desert appears to be sought
by the ostrich only as place Of refuge
against the attack Of enemies. It is tough,
hardy bird, and can exist for long time
without succulent food or water. The COM
mercial value of an ostrich consists in the
feathers which it produces. As an article of
food it is relished by the South American
Indians, but it would not be tempting
morsel to Americans. Until recently
the feathers were obtained by killing the
bird, and its wholesale destruction has been
carried on until the native species in South
Africa and Arabia has become very rare in
the former and entirely extinct in the latter
country. The prices for full-grown bird for
breeding purposes al Buenos Ayres ranges
from 81, coo upwards to 81, 250 per pair, While
chickens can be obtained for $50 apiece. The
female becomes breeding bird at four years
and the male at five years of age, and they are
said to attain the age of 80, IS and even 100
years before dying, unless they meet with
fatal accidents. One pair of birds will hatch
each year. thus producing from forty
to sixty chickens every year.
The gross income said t. be derived from
chickens produced by one pair of ostriches
each year is from $1,000 to $1,000. That ia,
the value # chickens month old at Cape
Colony is $50 apiece, and as soon as feathers
are produced the value increases until breed
ing age is reached, when the bird is worth
most. The chickens are first plucked at the
age of from six to nine months and at every
interval of the same time thenceforward
The feathers of the chickens are worth only
about s. per bird, but the succeeding
piucsiogs average from $40 to- $50 in
value. Assuming the pluckings to average
SIS per bird, there viii be gross income
from each ostrich of about SIP per annum.
Artificial incubation is found to work well.
It is estimated that in Cape Colony there is
Invested about $40, 600, 600 in ostrich farming,
aud the total value of feathers produced
yearly is 81, 500. eco. Fourteen years ago the
value of the feathers exported from the Cape
was $3.50. 600, taken chiefly from wild birds.
It is asserted that G, 900 acres of land will
maintsin 500 ostriches. The land must be
inclosed and hundreds Of separate pens
built for the birds during breeding
time. Much of the value of the
birds depends upon good breeding. Fine
passurage produces infinitely superior aud
more valuable feathers. Each wing produces
twenty-five long feathers, or fifty feathers In
all. besides blacks, drsbs and tails, the
majority Of which, especially in the male
birds, are fine white. In Cape Colony q
single good white feather cannot be obtained
for less than s.. 0stfichs can be easily
driven after they attain the age of eighteen
months, and evincs desire to roam, and be-
gin to give the herdsnea trouble when the
farms are not inelosed. When they approach
the breeding age they are required to be kept
sipgiy. Tney become moresayage, and the
msie bird often attacks man. They are sell
dom sick, and more frequently meet death as
result of accident incurred while running at
full speed over the ground. With proper
care, grown birds can endure a long sea voy-
age the ostrich farmers on river Plata see
no reason why the business cannot be success
fu Il prosecuted in the United States.
Untfed States senate.
WASHINGTON, January 2Si.-Anthony sub