DE GRUY Poultry Market burns in Dryades Street fire(Times Picayune10-15-1951 pg1 column 2 &States 10-15-1951 pg6 column 6. sylvia ---- Lou DeGruy III <[email protected]> wrote: > My Dad, Louis DeGruy, Jr., and his Dad, Louis DeGruy, Sr. were in the live > poultry business, DeGruy's Poultry, in the 1940's in New Orleans. I remember > the second floor of my Dad's bldg. was devoted to chickens of the world. He > had pairs of chickens from all over the world including China. I still > remember the poster that identified the different chicken breeds of the > world. I fed and watered the chickens whenever I was at his shop. The > different breeds were so colorful and beautiful. Unfortunately, they were > all killed in a fire in 1950 when his building burned down. I have the > Times-Picayune article about the fire and a picture of a surviving rooster. > I could not find a date in the article. I don't remember why he decided to > collect the different chicken breeds. I guess that was his hobby. I don't > remember him or my Grandad telling me how they got into the chicken > business. > > Thanks for the information. I don't know if there is a connection with my > Dad and Grandad and the earlier DeGruys and the chicken business. > > Happy New Year! > > "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." Confucius > > God Bless, > Lou DeGruy III > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of listadministratordegruyl > Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:24 AM > To: GEN Degruy Mailing list at Rootsweb > Subject: [DEGRUY] So.... which of our Degruys was a fowl-breeder?????????? > > More from Google Books [searching for "de Gruy"] > > page 60 > > Friend Miner,-To-day I forward to Mr. De Gruy, two cocks and three > pullets of the Palmer importation of Shanghaes. One cock, hatched on the > 15th of May last, which weighs ten pounds and two ounecs ; the other > cock, hatched on the 20th of May, and weighs ten povfnds, strong. One of > the pullets, hatched July 1st, weighs eight pounds; another, same age, > seven pounds and eight ounees ; and the third, hatched on the 6th of > August, weighs six pounds and ten ounees. > > I likewise send Mr. De Gruy, to-day, one cock and four pullets of the > Perley importation of Shanghaes. The cock was hatched on the 17th of > June last, and weighs nine pounds and fourteen ounees. One of the > pullets, same age, weighs eight pounds; another, same age, seven pounds > and fifteen ounecs; and the other, same age, seven pounds and fourteen > ounees; the fourth pullet, hatched 20th July, weighs six pounds and > twelve ounecs. > > Mr. De Gruy, here alluded to, is an extensive breeder of fowls in the > suburbs of New Orleans. > > > http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA60&dq=%22de+gruy%22&lr=&id=XKs9AAAAIAAJ&i > e=ISO-8859-1&output=html_text > > <http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA60&dq=%22de+gruy%22&lr=&id=XKs9AAAAIAAJ& > ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html_text> > > page 69 > > The imported cock weighs twelve pounds and a quarter, and the hen eight > pounds, though she is yet young, and has not near attained her full > size. The color is a bright yellow, nnd the birds have all the usual > characteristics of the best blooded Shanghaes. I think them equal to any > I have ever seen. Mr. De Gruy, in a letter to me, of the 10th of > Deecmber, 1852, in speaking of these fowls, says: ' I consider them > extraordinay birds, and the finest, largest, and best ones in America." > They are larger than Brown't Importation, but resemble them in color." > > May have answered my own question.... see next: > > pgs 109-112 > WILD INDIAN MOUNTAIN FOWL. > > The fowls portrayed in this engraving, are owned by A. Verloin de Gruy, > Esq., of New Orleans, and are aecurate likenesses from life. They were > imported and introdueed into the United States by Capt. Thompson and Mr. > Stockbridge, for Bower and Estes, of whom I had my original stock. My > own stock, as well as that of T. B. Miner, Esq., of Clinton, N. Y., is > identical with that of Mr. De Gruy. > > > also > > Wisconsin. > > My Brahma Pootras are splendid, and cast Burnham's into the shade. The > fact is, they do not resemble his at all. They are quite different > birds, and greatly superior, more elegant and loftier. He is grossly in > error when he calls them grey Shanghaes. > > A. Verloin De Gruy, > > Lousiana. > > I give no residence to the writers of the foregoing extracts, to show to > the public that I am not advertising their fowls, as is often done in an > underhanded manner, for which a consideration is tendered. If it be > possible to furnish an honest work, without favoring friends, or fearing > foes, I desire to do it. > > Mr. De Gruy, it appears, was a purchaser of stock from Mr. Burnham, > which that gentleman calls " Brahma Pootras," alias grey Shanghaes, but > the pair he extols so highly were purchased in 1852, of Dr. Bennett for > $50, and I now have a letter in my possession from Mr. De G. to Dr. B., > stating that a friend had offered him $150 for this same pair of fowls, > and he refused to sell them! > > The stock that I purchased of Dr. Bennett were hatched in the same nest > with this pair sold to Mr. De G.; so Dr. Bennett writes me. I am well > aware that such prices will appear to some of my readers as fabulous, > yet I assure them it is strictly so. I have, myself, sold seven pairs > and one cock of this breed, lately, for $110; but they were chickens, > from two to four months old only. > > > This is a "discussion" list. Individual messages cannot be assumed to be > "fact." All data should be verified. > Be Generous. Share Your Family Research. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > This is a "discussion" list. Individual messages cannot be assumed to be "fact." All data should be verified. > Be Generous. Share Your Family Research. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message