"As in the case of poultry, the number of persons who can 

 rear pheasants by the thousand is limited when compared with 

 those who are able to raise a small number. Therefore, if the 

 pheasant is to be maintained, the supply must come from a large 

 number of small breeders rather than from wholesale production on 

 a large scale." 



The writer is in accord with these sentiments and, in writing this 

 book, has endeavored to keep particularly in mind the small breeder 

 the farmer's wife with a desire for more pin money and the city man with 

 a few acres in the country maintained chiefly for recreation. 



In an endeavor to secure clarity of treatment and to present the vari- 

 ous phases of pheasant breeding in their logical sequence, it is assumed 

 that some one wholly without experience decides to purchase a dozen 

 birds and make a try at this very fascinating game. Every essential step, 

 from the securing of the license to the bringing to maturity of chicks 

 hatched from eggs laid by the breeding stock that has been purchased, is 

 given in turn. Particular attention has been given to details and where 

 coops and pens or other equipment are mentioned, complete measurements 

 with full information regarding construction have been given. Half-tones 

 have been employed profusely, in the effort to show every important 

 step in pheasant breeding and shooting and to give adequate illustration 

 to all equipment that is mentioned. 



While the small breeder has been specially kept in mind, at all im- 

 portant points the treatment has been elaborated to meet the requirements 

 of the man who wishes to go into pheasant breeding on a large scale. 



