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Practical Game Preserving. 



It should be borne in mind that it is advantageous to increase 

 gradually the dry foods at the expense of decrease in the 

 custard, until the chicks are two months old. About a 

 fortnight before this, the feeds of mixed food should be 

 reduced to one in the middle of the day, barley and wheat 

 to take the place of the others. After two months the 

 birds are put on dry grain as their staple food. 



Below we give a table showing the plan of feeding we 

 advocate not as a hard and fast rule, but as an example 

 to the inexperienced, of feeding young pheasants with a view 

 to keeping them always growing and progressing, for in 

 this lies the secret of successful pheasant rearing. Once the 

 youngsters stop progressing, look out for gapes, chills, and 

 all sorts of ill-luck. 



TABLE OF POOD FOE YOUNG PHEASANTS. 



The above, as we said, is not of necessity to be followed 

 exactly. Circumstances may not permit of it, but as an 

 example of a course of feeding it is a good one. 



