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There is a growing market for the young bass or finger- 

 lings to stock streams and ponds. The relation between 

 the producer of stock fish and those who expect to raise 

 bass of a marketable size is about the same as exists between 

 the professional seed grower and the market gardener. It is 

 much better for the small farmer who has or can make an 

 artificial pond to buy his fingerlings from the professional 

 breeder, who has facilities which are too elaborate to be 

 duplicated on a small scale. 



Fish culture, except under government auspices, is little 

 known in the United States. 



American Homes and Gardens has an account of the 

 breeding of pheasants, which is of interest. That it is pos- 

 sible to breed pheasants, even around an ordinary suburban 

 home, is shown by Mr. Homer Davenport, the famous car- 

 toonist, who succeeded in breeding and raising some of the 

 choicest pheasants on his place at Morris Plains, New Jersey. 



A great variety of species are commonly bred, but all of 

 them came from China or India. The pheasant can be 

 tamed by careful handling, but cats and dogs and other 

 small animals must be kept away. The pheasantry should 

 be placed on high, well-drained ground with a southern ex- 

 posure, where the soil is good enough to raise clover, oats, 

 and barley. The quarters for pheasants and the manage- 

 ment are very much like those for fancy chickens. The yard 

 should be inclosed by wire netting both on sides and top to 

 keep the birds from wandering away ; and there should be 

 houses for roosting and breeding with nesting quarters at- 

 tached. 



In Central Park, New York, the running space allotted 

 to three or four birds is not more than ten by twenty feet, 

 and Mr. George Ethelbert Walsh tells of a case where sixty 



