I may say that this is from a firm of fishmongers, poulterers, dealers in game and ice merchants.
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What has struck me in the last few years is the enormous number of lapwings hanging up in poulterers' shops.
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There is a growing demand from consumers for this to be indicated in butchers' and poulterers' stops.
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A constituent of mine was very surprised to learn a little while ago that chicken droppings were incorporated in a compound feed which he was buying from hispoulterer.
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The disease can be carried on the feathers, and when thepoultererplucks the bird and throws the feathers away the disease can be carried wherever the feathers go.
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Further, the period when ducks can be exposed for sale is shortened by a fortnight, which is agreed with the poulterers and is therefore satisfactory to everyone.
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It may still be hanging up in the butcher's or the poulterer's shopwindow, and may even have their name on it, and the children may come in and inspect it.
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So they were bought off, and no further noise came from them, but only from the small, unorganised fishmongers and poulterers and butchers who were going to suffer.
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I took the trouble to get the receipt from thepoultererto which the hares were sold afterwards and in fact they were not torn to pieces.
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In the case of a fowl, if a housewife orders it for delivery later, thepoulterermust weigh it before it is drawn, record that weight and charge accordingly.
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If in truth this arrangement, by which poulterers' shops are stacked with these eggs in the spring, does not interfere with the plover, why have these birds disappeared?
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It was headed by a poulter orpoulterer(though this last term is more often for a merchant who deals in poultry).
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