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Although with pheasants, like all birds of the 

 turkey family, the more ground they have to 

 range in the less are they liable to disease, yet 

 with proper care they can be raised on the home 

 acre. We find authenticated cases where as 

 many as sixty pheasants were kept in a house 

 10 x 50 feet with five yards averaging 10 x 25. 



The chief difficulty in raising them is securing 

 their food, such as flies, maggots, and ant-eggs. 

 They also require green food like lettuce, cab- 

 bage, turnip tops, etc. The pheasantry should 

 be placed on high, well-drained land with a south- 

 ern exposure, and must be thoroughly protected 

 from cats, dogs, and other small animals. 

 Pheasants bring fancy prices and the supply 

 does not begin to keep pace with the demand. 



So much has been written about the raising of 

 chickens that little remains to be said. 



We do not propose to hatch out another arti- 

 cle on the exhausted chicken subject. It is 

 necessary to take with large allowance the articles 

 in the poultry journals, as well as the Ananias 

 stories on this and other subjects in certain highly 

 illustrated "farm" journals. 



