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ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF GROUSE 



With a species as susceptible to disease as is the rufled grouse or the hobwhite quail, the 

 choice seems not to lie between rearing methods. Rather it is dependent on how far one can 

 go in applying artificial techniques. Generally speaking, quail and grouse are alike in that 

 each can adapt itself rather successfully to meet most of the limitations of being kept on 

 wire. 



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EARLY EGYPTIAN INCUBATOR 



A glance at table 68 will indicate that the differences which make game farm production of 

 quail much more successful than grouse propagation exist chiefly in the differential in egg 

 production and in the rearing success with the young birds. 



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RUFFHO (iliol SK IN CAPTIVITY 



To those who would raise grouse i>y the inculiator-broodcr method, a detailed considera- 

 tion of the methods employed and the attendant results should be of interest. In presenting 

 this picture, each natural unit of operation, such as breeding, brooding or rearing, together 

 with its attendant problems and practices, such as feeding and preventing disease, has been 

 handled as a suljject complete in itself. Only by so doing can one secure a well integrated 

 idea of the way in which each period or problem can be handled. 



