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Keeper's shcack, boiler, sieves and other paraphernalia used in feeding and caring for young 

 pheasants in the rearing field at the New Jersey State Game Farm. 



Department of Game Breeding of the American Game Protective Associa- 

 tion proposes to try out and report on during the coming season. 



CURDS. — Curds are invakiable to correct intestinal troubles so 

 frequently encountered in game bird rearing and which manifest them- 

 selves chiefly in cholera and scours, two diseases which find their counter- 

 part to an extent, at least, in typhoid fever and diarrhoea in human beings. 

 Curds are best prepared by placing sweet milk on the back of the kitchen 

 stove and letting it remain two or three hours till it has assumed a leathery 

 texture. When taken off, the contents should be placed in a cheesecloth 

 bag and strained. The dry, crumbly mass that remains is what is given 

 the birds. Salt must not be used. Curds may be fed several times a 

 week as an extra feed and also placed before the birds along with a regular 

 wet or dry feed. It should be thrown on the ground, as all other 

 feed should, not fed in a trough, and, after the birds are allowed to 

 range, care should be taken that feed is not thrown on the same spot from 

 day to day. 



Superintendent Duncan Dunn of the New Jersey State Game Farm 

 has done particularly brilliant work in turning out splendid birds in large 

 quantities, on a comparatively restricted area, — the severest test to which 

 the breeder can be put. His system of feeding is, therefore, of particular 

 interest. 



DUNN FEEDING SYSTEM.— First three days, chopped hard-boiled 

 egg and Spratt's fine ground oatmeal. 



