Farming for Pleasure and Profit

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The extreme pugnacity of the Ruff, and their great diversity of colours, has also been mentioned by other authors. The old Roman writers upon agri culture, as Cato and Columella, give directions for the fattening of wild birds, as well as for pigeons and domestic fowls; which at one time must have been comparatively an extensive business in the luxurious days of the Roman empire.