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given free range seems to show that confinement has much to do 

 Avith the ills of hand-raised pheasants. While we have been very 

 successful, there are always some fatalities. 



We have raised, this year, 3,400 ringnecks and about 80 to 90 

 Prince of W ales, 30 to 35 Mongolians, besides some silvers, goldens, 

 albinos and Reeves. 



While our game farm embraces some seventy-two acres, there 

 are only ten cleared at this time. The rest of it is covered with 

 heavy timber. We find that the C hinese pheasant wants meadows, 

 cultivated lands, green fields and potato patches where weeds and 

 insects thrive. 



Mr. L. H. Darwin, State Game Warden, writes me that Thurston 

 County, in which the capital city of Olympia is situated, also has a game 

 farm and that these counties are engaged in game and game fish propaga- 

 tion: Island, Spokane, Snohomish, Clarke, Pend Oreille, Ferry, Chelan 

 and Kittitas. 



This completes the discussion of the third and last method of stock- 

 ing covers with pheasants and also the attempt I have made to show how 

 to avoid the third of the causes commonly fatal to success in rearing pheas- 

 ants, namely, lack of knowledge of pheasant preserving. 



We shall consider next how to organize to conduct pheasant shooting 

 successfully. 



