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Figure 17. — Bii-'ls hciim iliMxrn down the \"-.sliai)r(l run in (•i.\(i((l ])cn on Clove 

 Valley Clubs Preserve. When a .sufficient nunil)er tor the day's 

 shoot have entered the coop the door is closed and the birds captured. 



The pen has also, in one corner, the small house employed by Mr. Dunn 

 for catching and .shelter. Into this house are driven early each morning 

 enough of the captive birds to meet the requirements of the members 

 who intend shooting that day. A wire run, 60 feet long, gradually con- 

 verging toward the entrance to the house, is employed in driving the birds 

 into it. Figure 17 shows birds being driven down this run to the door of 

 the house, which is seen in the picture. When a sufficient ninnber of birds 

 have entered the house, the keepers capture them and place them in wheat 

 sacks in which they are taken to the covers for the day's shooting. 



SIXTY BIRDS FOR EACH MEMBER.— Members order their birds 

 and draw for covers the preceding evening. Each member is entitled to 

 have 60 pheasants planted during the season, and it is customary to put 

 them out in lots of five or ten at a time. Not more than five birds are 

 placed in a run. Experience will have to be relied upon to teach the be- 

 ginner how far apart the various runs should be placed. 



The Clove Valley Club has sixty members and the country that is 

 shot over comprises approximately 2,000 acres. This is a succession of 

 open fields, whose boundary hedges and fences have been allowed to grow 

 into a tangle of shrubs and vines, bogs and thick-covered swamp. The 

 illustration in Figure 18 affords some idea of the treatment given field 

 boundaries so as to afford cover for the planting of pheasants. 



"CANNEDSPORT."— lam quite aware of the fact that planting 

 birds in the manner described above suggests what one critic has, somewhat 

 slangily, termed "canned sport." The answer to such criticism lies in 



