THE REARED PHEASANT 223 



As to how far it may be advisable to 

 rely on bought eggs to the exclusion of 

 home -produced ones, this is entirely a 

 matter of weighing the increased con- 

 venience against the increase of cost ; 

 there may be other factors affecting the 

 matter, such as the overcrowding of game 

 mentioned in a later page ; circumstances 

 alter cases, and only the convenience to 

 all those engaged in rearing pheasants of 

 reliable eggs being always available when 

 wanted need be insisted on here. 



One ingenious game-farmer has cer- 

 tainly increased his sphere of utility — and 

 we will hope also of his business — by de- 

 vising a clever system of supplying live 

 chicks instead of eggs. He discovered by 

 experiment that newly hatched pheasants 

 packed in the small partitions of simple 

 light boxes, covered over with flannel to 

 preserve the normal temperature of the 

 nest, not only survived long journeys 

 across country, but arrived strong and 

 lively at their destination. The writer 

 spent an interesting afternoon on the 



