Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-08-03
,lsTRICHES AT THE FAIR.
Y Ranch Opened Near the Expo
.' sition Grounds
Tho Only Ostrich Farm West or Cnlifor-
nina Novel and Interesting Ex-
hibIt for tho Coming Great
Worlds Enir.

lakewood, just below the worlds fair
rounds, is boasting of tho only ostrich
farm in the country outside of Califor-
pin, says the Chicago News.
The California-African ostrich farm
exhibit has thirty-fivc of tho great be-
DluIncd bipetls strutting around under
The wntchful eye of Z. j. Johnson, who
brought his long-neclzed pets all tho
lay from the Pacific coast in furni-
:urc car. Tho birds arrived in Chicago
n the night and were taken to lakewood
o. nc next day, marched down u runway
Ito the Enclosure and all lockwood
iIabed the fence to- look. The
sstrichcs, seventeen hens and thirteen
cocks, arc to form part of the California
worlds fair exhibit, and were brought
ere through the efforts CT L. o. Lam
l'herc, the real estate dealer. A corral
las been built at lakewood and the
tstrichcs will now be put through the
recess of ncclimation. Nearly all of the
+irds were hntchcd in IN incubator and
re considered IN unusually wcll-sclcct-
Il lot, all strong, healthy, Gnc Gpe@i-
.lcns. They como. from the Fall BROOK
strich farm in San Diego county, Cal,
nd arc the offspring of the twenty
lrcc birds brought from Africa by
IanaGcr johnson in 1858. There arc
yer one hundred left behind in Califor-.
ia, and what was IN experiment q few
cars ago is now regarded as an assured
lcceS3.
The Older birds at the lakewood farm
ave pluncs OF Z beautiful glossy black,
Mt the hens and chicE6-one of those
lTl@ chicks can look over y ten-foOt
"ncc without straining a musalc-arc IL
MIXTURE of drab and brown. The cocks
nature ut five years of age, the hens Mt
our, and, although the average life is
twenty-five yeaFs, they have been
novn tn live much longer. Tho birds
Oallwood are valued ut five hundred
Ky d0llur3' worth of plumes each
car. They arc placlleI every eight
l0nGhg. Manager johnson has named
-i3 GRANT turkeys after tho celebrities
f tho day. Gail Hamilton, IL ten-foot
MAIDEN with Dclslrtcan balance to
:cr walk and 1irtatious twinkle in
lcr eye, IS far from being as swcet-tcm-
,ocrcd and amiablc rs the namc would
;uggcst. benjamin Harrison is II plumcd
might, not very large, but stout,
'turly and pugnacious. James e..
:ilainc Was sold to Denver ndlnircr
Just bcfoGc the convention, and John
&. Sullivan has gone to honolulu.
:irovcr Cleveland is huge fellow,
back and brown, with an expansive
spread to his bill and soft spot in his
heart for Gail IIalailton..
II believe an ostrich farm could be
operated here as = permanent thing"
aid Mr.. Johnson. "OStrichcs can
;tanda deal Of cold, and / arn going to
test this lot of birds this year. think
they'll breed here all right. In few
days will have a Pctalumn incubator.
all'sct up, ready for Matching. feed
the ostrichcs ON feed, grain, vegetables
and grass. Yes, they will cat nails, but
Ed rather they'd talsc something not
quito SO long-glass, for instance. They
swallow such things to help them pre-
pare their food for digestion. 1t doesn't
hurt them," and he threw large Cali
fornia onion to Gail uaailton, who
swallowed it OF gulrh and anothcr
and another, until her distcndcd neck
looked like n section of bamboo fish
ing rod with the knobs six inches apart.