The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-05

udIkGy weighing sixty pO1uuS, 6Lu VIII
make four miles straightway and return
in less than nineteen minutes.
The novelty of these races will easily
advertise them and the expense will be
| small. Local entertainment bureaus are
requested to commune ate with Nh. Root,
who will give rates of percentage on
which he will play. A good mile ira k,
properly inclosed, will be all that is neces-
sary when he goes on the road. D .ferent
colored ribbons will mark the favOrites,
and naturally much money will change
hands,.
The study of the ostrich is filed with
interest to the thinking mini. Minds not
used for thinking purposes, however,
will find little to interest them in the
ostrich. One odd feature about this bird
is the custom common to the female of
laying several xtra eggs outside the nest
for the young to eat as soon as they are
Matched. This is only true, however, of
the birds who iuhabit Syria, Palestine
and Egypt, as they are not strictly tropi-
cal. In the tropical ATTITUDES, Of course,
the ostrich does It sit on her egg but
deposits them on a sand pile, and with a
degree of INDECENT faith worthy of a
mother who is a corporal in the Salvation
Army, she turns them over to an all wise
providence to hatch out, while she goes
forth seeking other peoples children in
order that she may reform them.
Little boys should never rob the ness
of these birds unless they are in readiness
to face an Infatuated God. Once there
was a little boy living about eighteen
miles southwest of Timbuctoo whose
name was Gooloo Goolison. He did not
know what was right and what was
wrong. He had a little r~udimentary con-
science, but it did not annoy him at all.
A little gospel had entered the family
years ago., but Gooloo was too young t.
get much Of it, as he had to eat at the
second table, and there was very little left
after the old folks got through. So Goo
loo did not know it was wrong to rob
an ostrich nest and sub stitute a scooped
out watermelon.
But he does now
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Whittier he has went people know al
most everything Especially they know
that to fool the mamma bird with a warm
watermelon rind is no way TO live.
The ostrich is not a brainy bird. Even
in Arabia, where knowledge instead of
being a power is generally regarded as a
calamity, the natives, when they want to
say a biting thing of some peculiarly
gifted ass, say he is as stupid as an os-
trich."
A bird dog is of little use in hunting
the ostrich, for in many instances instead
of flushing the bird he gets a little flushed
himself.
Feather busters are mostly the handi-
work of the Nandu or Americanos-trick.
At the Cape Colony many ostriches are
domeSticated for their plumes, eggs, oil,
and rarely their flesh, which is a little
gamy' but not half bad.
Cases of Group in Africa have been al
most instantly relieved by catching an
ostrich, frying the oil ou- Of it while yet
warm and applying it to the exterior and
interior of the child.
The ostrich is gregariouS, omniverous,
~polygamous, and e~4dogenOus. 1t gives
a great deal of ii e to the pleasing occu-
patton of digestion. Tie parent bird does
not hunt food for her young at all, but
leaves them to hustle for themselves, as
Aristotle has it. The mother provides
them at their birth with but a worm
apiece, and that is all.
1t is a tape worm.