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devoted much study to the problem, and now for two years 

 have been able to raise quails in numbers up to a couple of 

 hundred without disease or more than incidental loss. 

 As I am personally familiar with every detail of the 

 process, I felt and have been assured that a detailed mono- 

 graph on the subject would be of especial timeliness and 

 value. 



Recent Success. The bob-white is without question the 

 native gallinaceous species to emphasize for further experi- 

 ments in propagation, especially on a larger scale, as success 

 has now been secured in a number of cases, and the move- 

 ment to propagate it is well under way. Among recent in- 

 stances of reasonable success I would name the following: 

 Harry T. Rogers, Sherburne, New York, has raised four or 

 five hundred or more in a season. B. H. Selden, of Rich- 

 mond, Virginia, is reported to have raised quails in consid- 

 erable numbers. The Massachusetts Game Commission 

 raised several hundred of them in 1914, the Connecticut State 

 Game Farm at Madison about two hundred, and the New 

 Jersey Commission are reported to have reared about five 

 hundred. A. G. Mac Vicar has raised as many as one hun- 

 dred and fifty in a season in New Jersey. Wallace Evans has 

 for several years raised them in moderate numbers, not going 

 into it extensively because it has not been commercially 

 profitable on account of the cost of the necessary ^-inch mesh 

 wire. Prices for quail stock have now soared so high that 

 he has stated to me in person that he would henceforth un- 

 dertake it on a larger scale, considering it thoroughly practi- 

 cable. Results of experiments under my own supervision 

 on the estates of United States Senator George P. McLean 

 and of William Rockefeller are described elsewhere. 



Pioneer Work. It was Dr. C. F. Hodge, then of Clark 

 University, Worcester, Massachusetts, who first interested 



