Popular Science Monthly 



433 



however, cannot equal the setting hen for 

 results. Early in May hatching begins. 

 Then for three weeks the chicks require 

 great care. They are placed in a box filled 

 with cotton wadding, and covered with a 

 light quilt to dry, after which they are 

 placed in the brood- 

 er. After about a 

 week, they are placed 

 in runs, in a grassy 

 clearing, carefully 

 protected against 

 foxes, hawks and 

 other marauders'. 



The daily bill of 

 fare is carefully pre- 

 pared. The first 

 meal, on the day 

 after the hatching, 

 consists of ant-eggs. 

 From the second 

 me^l this diet is 

 varied by green 

 food and a mash, of 

 which the base is 

 hard boiled eggs 

 and stale bread. 

 The moulting sea- 

 son, which often 

 decimates pheasan- 

 tries, is reached at 

 the end of the sec- 

 ond month. The 

 breeder has now to 

 redouble his vigilance in order to keep the 

 chicks from damp and chill. Finally 

 during the first two weeks of July the 

 young pheasants are taken to the thickets 

 or woods. They are carried at night, coop, 

 mother hen and chicks, from the pheas- 

 antry to the spot selected, and there 

 they live, the young 

 birds- gradually 

 drifting away from 

 the mother hen, un- 

 til entirely free, they 

 disappear 

 into the 

 coppice. 



The young chicks must 

 against foxes, hawks 



If You Can Stop An Automobile, 

 You Are Fit to Run One 



RUNNING an automobile through 

 traffic is like swimming in deep 

 water. Don't do it until you are so sure 

 of yourself that all 

 danger of panic has 

 gone by. And al- 

 ways expect the un- 

 expected. Leave 

 your family or 

 friends at home on 

 those first few rides. 

 As your initial les- 

 son, after you have 

 learned the names, 

 and above all the 

 potentialities of the 

 various levers, learn 

 how to stop. Of 

 course, as a pre- 

 liminary, you must 

 start, but that can 

 be at your leisure. 

 Make a dozen — or 

 even a hundred at- 

 tempts to bring the 

 car to a standstill 

 until you have 

 gained confidence. 

 Then adventure 

 along some quiet. 



be carefully protected 

 and other marauders 



Hens are used to hatch out the pheasant eggs. 

 Incubators have never been so successful 



unobstructed road. 

 After you have received some instruc- 

 tion about the general mechanism of the 

 car, . practise stopping suddenly before 

 reaching imaginary dangers along the 

 road. Don't wait for this lesson until a 

 child, a chicken, an absent-minded saun- 

 terer or some other irresponsible live 

 thing sends your brand-new knowledge 

 helter-skelter. 



Measuring distance accurately is the 



most important feature of driving. 



Draw two lines across the road fifty 



feet apart. Then, going at the rate of 



twenty miles an hour, apply the brake 



and see how long it takes you to stop 



the car. When you discover how much 



over the fifty-foot line your automobile 



goes, you realize the necessity for the 



driver's first rule — caution. 



This trial also teaches you what speed is 



safe in approaching railroad crossings and 



intersecting streets, and how near you can 



go to traffic before applying your brake. 



