Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-08-12
POULTRY RAISING I'm FRANCE.
Dainty Fowls THAT Partisan Gourmand
Pay From 50 to 80 For.


\ visit to the Halles Centrales, or grea
! markets OF Paris in the early morning is
! very interesting, and reveals something OF
! that marvellous organization which is es
scntal to the feeding of great city. Here
We find almost every form of animal and
vegetable food, dealers and buyers alike
characterized by great activity and to.
| Scther providing for the needs of con
sumors, who, few hours later, will find
! on their tables delcaces of all kinds
| Among poultry. all of which is dead, many
! kins may be noted. Some of an ordinary
| type for common needs and common pock.
! ctsi while others are of a higher class
ANA command bigger prices. The latter en-
braces birds of the Faverolles type from
Seine-et Disc. large and fleshy, together
morsels for sourmands, exquisite La
| Fleche, lie Mans and Courtes Pattes, from
4 Southern Normandy, and La Bress, from
| the departments of Ain and Saone-et-
! Probably the latter will first command at
tention by reason OF their peculiar shape.
their marvellous quality of flesh and their
hneness OF bone. But if we think of pur-
the demand varying from % TO 10 francs
Tor the ilner specimens. And If we visit the
south ana southeast OF France. sojourn on
me Riviera for health or pleasure, we shall
| una great quantities of fowls partaking of
the same shape, of which more amos
! though happily they do not make quite the
same demand on our pockets as at Paris
Recently | have spent Il week in the La
Br"sse country, returning with wider IDEAS
=,
when properly carried on, and the desra-
nlhly OF seeking TO produce the best quail
therefore, be acceptable to your readers.
In the lrst place, ii may be explained
that the La l5rtsse country lies at the ives
end OF the Jura mountains, north of the
lihone and to the southeast Of Burgundy.
us capltaI Is the old city of BourE, which
is on the main line from Paris 10 Mont
Gems, or Geneva, and the first stopping g,
place for fast trains after leaving the trunk
gou'e rom Iarls to Maseil!es, say about
iorty miles from Macon.
Bourg. is, now chief city of the depart
mTsMi Trd.i. OF i me ne Ain, AN, as the designation La
rfSfe is i9 no longer used Officially for this
confined TO BOurg, as at the north, in the
adjoining department Of saone-et- Loire,
race are largely bred, and probably to an
even greater extent The country is undu-
east and west. II is very fertile produc-
ms, IN addition to the usual cereals, maize.
qualities Of fruit There is ali that intensity
OF cultivation which is characteristic Of
French agriculture, and in driving about
scarcely an inch of room is wasted Small
farms prevail a place of nifty acres being
are owners as well as occupers, though
there are many tenants under the chiefs
The people are evidently thrifty race,
both men and women being hard workers
heheying IN the virtue of little things
From what We could learn. they are as
a rule, comfortably well off urb
their houses belle such a belief While
some OF the dwellings are clean and tiGy
they are very plainly furnished, and many
an English aborer's cottage has more Df
comforts than 4tha houses of f.rn'Sr 49, a. a.
La Bresse Othsrs there arc ,rhint iiS'S ~
even the most ordinary bouSebnjd t,olsIil iaEN
save beds and 1aaI ta6les anG - g, S""uG, 80
bv no means attract I," ''''''' '''N t"e3 are
Trha bnueas IN ,1a,1,, cas.. 49,. -, -,
story 49, ~ t''Ns N@Hea aie OF single
caves Ire lattsr Eor5o, ~. 80 NSiS Miile
,bran ret ,,rI ul'es ,r pIoJecunS
Ihisc, H. - - - p,., - ~ ~ ntils mere Is an
IL, ,ron!n I M @ %, t enI' Maize y large
H. SitU"t'' e'itH ~ '.pS ar. strung together
inrGi npse putGgs, bnts, Ihrre 10 four feet IN
iiTis'ni ri anu huilS 70 lfE under the caves,
nm ~ hi' ELtEes the houses a very pretty effect,
hlI az a., nave not not Htti With the same system
,n n't b5 Un a @ @mvaaer we" proved picturesque
As VIII be gathered from what has al
fedny been stated, poultry forms an i'm
porlant part Of the live stock. ] saw in
Louhans market on one day upwards OF
lhVo live fowls on sale, and at Bourg sev-
eTal hundred women and men principally
the former, We're offering their dead poui-
lry; As one drives about, chickens seem
stretion, but alhwed 10 wander over the he
fields both arabic and pastures. and
amongst the vines aud fruit trees wbar b9t,-
ever they like But from Ihis il NM nv. ,,,
be Imagined thai great numbers az. l,'t 49,
on, each farm. Many of ths s,5afiS fniS hepl
nIe only TfsT tftv AZ ,ixt,, S@i,'a4ieI @ lto-
.rinfg mn to Eaa On ,ha irtcs pVf anhihl,
iattcr n,Imber beinp nI1ite .1ts'i psc+sl ms
I3ut ~, n mo,Je,ats IT, ~ - e. eAespllonai,