So our next clue was off the front of the card, net, here shown as netting, or what some readers may call chicken wire. However this picture does also have a striking resemblance to an actual net used in play, apart from the height, a badminton net being five feet and one inch high at the ends, dropping down to exactly five feet tall in the middle.
Now you may be wondering why there is a net at all, and whether, when training, one can be dispensed with? The answer is that there must be a net at all times, for it allows the court to be broken into two equal halves. Without it you would not develop the skills required to lob the shuttlecock across and outwit your opponent to win a point, with respect to the length of play and also to the height. If you practised without the net , and then tried to play, you would almost certainly soon find that most of your strikes were hitting the net and falling, point-lessly, on your side of it.
This set is described in our original Ogden`s reference book (RB.15, first issued in 1949), as :
50 POULTRY REARING & MANAGEMENT. Fronts lithographed in colour. Backs in green, with descriptive text. Home issues :-
136. 1st Series of 25. Numbered 1-25. Issued 1922.
137. 2nd Series of 25. Numbered 1-25. Issued 1923.
This is slightly shortened in our original World Tobacco Issues Index, to :
POULTRY REARING & MANAGEMENT. Sm. Nd.
1. “1st Series of 25”.
2. “2nd Series of 25”.
And the only change to this in the updated version of that book is that behind these “25”s it adds “(25).” It also squeezes them both on the same line below the title to make just a two line entry.