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Show Their Eggs Might Help. Ostriches In summer will llvo almost al-most entirely on green nlfalfu, and In winter consume each about n pound of grain and three pounds of iilfalfn hay a dny. It would heem therefore that tho salo of eggs might go ii long way toward pa lug for tho upkeep of the flocks. Ostriches thrive In the dry and sandy southwest, and upon alfalfa, which Is very easily raised In that region re-gion wherever irrigation Is possible. Thu average yearly jleld of feathers from an ostrich Is a little over a pound and their Miluo lit 1010 was S20 to $30. |