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cost about fifty dollars. The posts can be cut 

 from the woodlot. 



G. E. Walsh says, In " Forest and Stream ": 



" The pheasant is one of the most popular inhabi- 

 tants of the modern game preserve, and the work of 

 breeding them successfully on a few acres of land is 

 neither difficult nor expensive. Twenty years ago it 

 was the popular impression that these beautiful birds 

 could only be raised successfully on large estates, but 

 to-day the fallacy of this argument is fairly proved by 

 many notable examples. Several breeders have raised 

 pheasants on small suburban grounds with less than 

 two acres of land for accommodations for houses and 

 exercising grounds." 



Pheasants, although high-strung and nervous, 

 are easily tamed and raised as pets. A ten- 

 acre preserve, with a running stream of water, 

 a pond or lake, and an acre or two of open 

 fields or thicket, will support several hundred 

 pheasants, quail, partridge, and wild turkeys. 

 None of these will interfere with the breeding 

 and increase of the others. The main point 

 to be remembered in breeding such game is the 

 food supply in winter, and shelter against the 



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