Eureka Reporter | 1905-06-23 | Page 4 | Menagerie Menus

menagerie menus catering to animals requires both a plentiful and varied supply of food as may be seen from this report of material fed at the london zoological gardens last yeal for the flesh eating guests there were supplied tons of horse flesh nearly nine tons of goat flesh and 9 chicken heads fourteen and a halt tons of fish in addition to 1 pints of shrimps furnished the water fowl with their dally fare while loads of hay and 6 bunches of greens supplied the ruminants other items on the list were pounds of grapes pounds of augar 6 loaves of bread 5 quarts of milk pounds of crackers and more than thirty three thousand eggs the chicken heads were tor the vari ous members of the rat family the eggs were fed to the birds and the shrimps formed the easiest way to the affections of the flamingoes