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After the third day, mix in Spratt's number 12 pheasant meal, first 

 scalding it and using the oatmeal to bring it to a crumbly state. 



On the fifth day, add chick grain, scalding it and the pheasant meal 

 together and later mixing the two with the egg. Increase the proportion 

 of chick grain till the birds are two weeks old. 



At the end of two weeks, substitute number 5 pheasant meal for 

 number 12 and add rice to the second and third feeds of the day. Boil the 

 rice separately and mix it in by hand. 



A pinch of bone meal should be added to the mash at each feed after 

 the first week. 



In wet weather, after the first week, a dash of cardiac in the feed, is 

 recommended. 



USE OF CRISSEL. — At the commencement of the third week, crissel 

 (a beef scrap substitute for insect food manufactured by Spratt's) and 

 Spratt's pheasant manna (a grain mixture), are added to the mash. The 

 crissel is first placed in a bucket of warm water and the impurities are re- 

 moved as they come to the surface. It is then scalded with boiling water 

 and left to drain in a sieve (a simple frame 18 x 18 inches with a fly screen 

 bottom). The pheasant manna is also scalded and drained and mixed with 

 boiled rice and scratch food, the two last named being boiled together when 

 the birds reach this age. The mash resulting from the mixture of these 

 ingredients is given at the first three feeds of the day and dry scratch food 

 alone is given at the fourth. 



At the commencement of the fourth week, the daily feeds are reduced 

 from four to three. 



As it is the custom in New Jersey to distribute pheasants reared on 

 the state farm the following spring, the pens in which the birds are placed 

 for the winter when, at the age of six weeks, they are taken from the 

 rearing field, are quite well filled and so the combination of wet and dry 

 feeds given immediately above is continued but Mr. Dunn, with Mr. Rogers, 

 recommends dry feeds from the sixth week if the birds have free range, 



DRY MASH IN HOPPER.— Spratt's egg-laying mash, a dry mash, 

 is kept in a hopper before the young birds when they are put in the winter 

 pens on the New Jersey Farm and corn meal is added to it. It keeps 

 down feather-eating which always threatens when birds are confined. 



Mr. Dunn has experimented with raw eggs as a feed for young birds 

 with good results but has not adopted this feed generally. When em- 

 ployed it is first given from the fifth to the seventh day. The egg is first 

 beaten well and then mixed with Spratt's number 12 pheasant meal, a 

 little scalding water being added, but care is taken to avoid sloppiness. 

 Unscalded chick grain is sometimes mixed in. 



