Colossal Farming at the Cape
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Animal Husbandry, Breeding, Technology, Agriculture |
Discusses news that a Cape Town farmer has hatched ostrich eggs by an incubator of his own construction. Surmises that to cope with such large eggs the farm would have to be of 'Brobdingnagian dimensions' and speculates on the large size of the incubator. | |
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