Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — Breeding Swans. [ARTICLE]

Breeding Swans.

\\ e have yet to kuow of a farmer or poultry man who has taken up the breeding of swans— fowl c f great value and not so difficult to rear with tho same amount of care and attention that is given to poultry. Most of the large public parks, such as Central Hnrk, New York; Fairmount Park, Philadelphia: Allegheny Park, Allegheny,Pa.; Lincoln Park, Chicago, and many others, keep and rear fresh stock annually. Live breeding pairs cost, from $75 to *IOO. At such prices it looks reasonable to believe them to be profitable. Eggs cannot be obtained but the birds eon from the superintendent of any of the abovementioned parks. Would it not pay to try a few as to their value as farm fowls? —[American Agriculturist,