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chilled, and that they arrive in first class condition. Some dealers, how- 

 ever, complain of the condition of imported birds. He says that domestic 

 birds vary greatly in quality, but that he prefers the best of them to the 

 imported. Pheasants are sold in the market largely in pairs and are 

 graded according to size. 



HOTEL MEN WANT MORE PHEASANTS.— Mr. Oscar Tschirky, 

 general manager of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, states that the hotels will 

 v/elcome a large increase in the production of ringnecks. He prefers the 

 native to the bird imported in cold storage and thinks that with the law 

 enacted at the last session of the New York legislature permitting the sale 

 of pheasants at any time, this bird will likely take the place of the guinea 

 to a large extent on hotel menus. Mr. Tschirky expressed deep interest 

 in the movement to popularize pheasant breeding. 



LARGEST IMPORTER WOULD WELCOME AMERICAN-BRED 

 BIRDS. — Mr. A. Silz, of \. Silz & Co., wholesale game and poultry dealers 

 at 410 West Fourteenth Street, New York City, who is popularly supposed 

 to import approximately ninety per cent, of the pheasants brought to this 

 country for table use, states that he would very much like to see farmers 

 and any one else who may be interested take up pheasant breeding and 



Figure 15. — TJirds from IVIr. Morgan Wing's Sandanona I'licas- 

 aiitry displayed in the window of a New York 

 game dealer. 



