GAMi-: fal'Mim; i-oi: rLi:.\sn:i-: on rnoirr 



a i 



sheltered on north and wi'st. and eon- 

 tainino; simple hoard and Itrush shelters 

 under winch the hirds can taki' refui^e 

 from storms. Outdoor eohl does not 

 trouhle them when thus eared for. 

 Ahout the middle of Mareh thev should 

 ho removed to hreediiiii (iiiariris. j-'or 

 those a separate 

 small enelosure 

 should he ])ro- 

 vided for each 

 hreeding unit of a 

 eoek and four nr 

 live hens. Each of 

 these pens should 

 he ahout fourteen 

 feet square, hot- 

 tondess and \\ov\- 

 ahle. with two- 

 inch mesh wire, hut 

 boarded up two 

 feet from the 

 jrround. There 

 should he board 

 shelters from 



storm, and brush 

 heaps under which 



nests may be concealed. ]*heasants are 

 fed mostly on ordinary small fjrain, such 

 as "scratch-feed,"' and any convenient 

 "green-stuff,"" with a little rich laying- 

 mash in spring. In northern districtslay- 

 ing begins about the middle of April. 



The young when first hatched must 

 he kept carefully shut in with the hen, 

 or they will escape and get lost. After 

 one day, hen and l^rood are removed to 

 a fresh coop, fed and confined for aur 

 other day. then for two days allowed to 

 run out through slats into a very small 

 yard. After this they are allowed to 

 run at will, the hen l)eing shut in the 

 coop when there are a nund)er of other 

 broods, to prevent mi.xing and fighting 

 of hen mothers: Otherwise the luii 

 could range with them. By this time 

 they know the call of the hen and stay 

 with her. ('oo]>s had liettcr be from 

 fifty to sixty feet a])art, in a grassy 

 field or pasture. There need be no 

 fence if cats, doirs. and vermin do uot 



Mltack ihrin. i'reliniinai-y lra|)pingof 

 \cnnin i> iiiipori.int. l-'or any consid- 

 eraltle game farming, iiowevt'r. it is 

 l)ettcr to have at least two fields sur- 

 rounded by wire fences, sevi'U or eight 

 i'eet high, over wiiich animals will not 

 jump, and over which the young sel- 



Tlit' >)luisli gray scaled quail (note its conspicuous white-tipped crest) 

 lias been bred and wintered in northern Connecticut by Senator McLean, 

 wliereas it is native to a wanner lionie in the southwestern United States 

 and in Mexico 



I'liiliil Slater Senator George P. McLean, who 

 is the man that introduced before Congress the 

 Weeks-McLean Migratory Bird Law passed in 

 1913, lias raised ruffed grouse on his estate at 

 .'^inisbury, Connecticut 



