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BOBBED HAIR KILLS OSTRICHES. LONDON, March 16. A despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co. from Johannesburg, South Africa, says hundreds of ostriches are being slaughtered daily by ostrich farmers, who have despaired of the revival of the plume market at Oudtshoorn. It is estimated that over 200,000 ostriches have been slaughtered. In February, 1926, Eric 11. Louw, South African Trade Commissioner, was quoted as saying that ostrich farming was dying out, because, after the coming of bobbed hair, large bats, such as formerly were decorated with ostrich plumes, were not being worn any more.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16317, 18 April 1927, Page 12
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