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Figure 8. — Trap with fun- 

 nel-shaped entrance for 

 catching pheasants. 



Figure 8- A. — Another view of 

 pheasant trap, taken at out- 

 side opening of funnel-shaped 

 entrance. 



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On the Sherburne Farm, narrow patches of buckwheat are sown in 

 all the rearing fields and the chicks spend a good deal of time in them. 

 Some of the buckwheat is cut green and given the adult pheasants for 

 succulence. What remains serves to hold any escaped birds to the field. 

 Never place the rearing coop in standing grain; always locate it on turf. 

 Soft ground is good for young birds to run in but not adapted to the loca- 

 tion of coops. 



PHEASANT TRAP.— Various forms of traps are used for catching 

 young pheasants in the rearing field, and some device of this sort is par- 

 ticularly needed when the time comes to remove the birds from the field. 

 The trap pictured in Figure 8 is the one used on the New Jersey State 

 Farm, and it works well. It is 18 inches high, 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. 

 The framework is composed of 1x2 stuff and this is covered with one- 

 inch poultry netting. A hinged door in the center of the top is 2 feet long 

 and 1 foot wide. The trapped birds are removed through this. At one 

 end of the trap the wire netting, instead of being nailed flush across, is 

 drawn within the trap a distance of 2 feet or more, so as to create a funnel- 



