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- <text id=92TT0071>
- <title>
- Jan. 13, 1992: Business Notes:Poultry
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 13, 1992 The Recession:How Bad Is It?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- POULTRY
- A Bird with An Attitude
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- <p> Pheasant under glass seems an unlikely entree to gain
- popularity during the frugal 1990s. But Henry Saglio, the owner
- of Connecticut's Grayledge-Avian Farms, wants to make pheasant
- more proletarian. Back in the 1940s, Saglio's Arbor Acres farm
- raised some of the first of the meatier and cheaper white
- chickens that became a diet staple. For the past five years, he
- has been perfecting a broad-breasted breed of pheasant that is
- meatier and more tender than its wild brethren in the hope of
- popularizing that fowl.
- </p>
- <p> While pheasant may lend itself to more exotic and
- flavorful culinary adventures than chicken does, it also costs
- a lot more: about $4 per lb., vs. $1.25. Saglio hopes to cut the
- price by boosting efficiency and raising larger numbers. Last
- fall he shipped about 25,000 birds, many of which ended up as
- holiday dinners. The main difficulty in raising pheasants, he
- says, is their individualistic nature and their tendency to
- attack one another.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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