CONTENTS 



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FOREWORD 3 



RESTORATION 5-9 



Former abundance of game ; Game laws have not saved it ; Field sports promote 

 health ; Their restoration through game breeding of great economic importance ; 

 Prejudice against breeders founded on ignorance; Wild bred better than hand 

 reared birds; Beat keepers and hand rearing keepers. 



GAME ENEMIES 10-14 



Control vermin and good shooting results; Foxes; Coyotes; Wolves; Mountain 

 lions; Lynxes; Minks; Weasels; Snakes; Hawks; Owls; Turtles; Crows; 

 Skunks; Traps; Pole traps; Poison; Cats; Dogs; Rats; Destruction of covers. 



THE WILD TURKEY 15-18 



Propagation important because of diseases among domestic turkeys; Four 

 species; Habitat; Commercial breeding; Hand rearing; Enemies, Foods; 

 Market prices. 



AMERICAN QUAILS OR PARTRIDGES 19-24 



Five genera and thirteen species; Comparison with European partridges; 

 Terms "quail" and "partridge;" Breeding habjts; Good shooting at quail clubs 

 with small dues; California mountain quail; Valley quail; Gambel's quail; 

 Scaled partridge and chestnut-bellied scaled partridge; Mearn's quail. 



BOB-WHITE 25-27 



Range; Preserves; Artificial breeding; Hand rearing unnecessary; Food habits. 



THE GROUSE OF THE OPEN COUNTRY 28-33 



Extinct in entire states; Will vanish from cultivated regions until it pays to 

 preserve them; Attention from sportsmen needed; At present practically no 

 shooting; The sharp-tailed grouse; The sage cock; The heath-hen. 



TE;H: /PPAIRIE GROUSE 34-39 



< Raiige ; Reasons! f c*r i|cS> extinction in many places ; Food habits ; Hand rearing 

 experiments unsuccessful; Can be made abundant if bred wild; Farms in 

 "qaic'K'ei?" country row posted; Grouse shooting in Scotland attracts Ameri- 



-r'.anS; Scotch grouse prou.uced'.on small area; Small part of available lands in 

 this" ccfuhlfy sko aid fell markets with cheap grouse; Cost of wild breeding small. 



THE GROUSE OF THE WOODS AND MOUNTAINS 40-43 



Ptarmigans; Canada or spruce grouse; Blue or dusky grouse. 



RUFFED GROUSE 44-47 



Artificial propagation partially successful but undesirable; Food habits; 

 Covers; Enemies; Nests. 



WILD DUCKS 48-53 



Duck breeding in England; Methods of rearing; "Straddles;" Cramps; 

 Enemies; Feeding; Mallards and black ducks; Wood ducks; Breeding of all 

 species should be encouraged by laws; The sea ducks. 



THE PHEASANTS 54-58 



Introduction to England and America ; Other introduced game birds; Pheasants 

 thrive if protected from vermin; Several thousand breeders in this country; 

 Complaints of damage to crops; Dark-necked and ring-necked pheasants; 

 Other varieties; Successful small breeders; Market prices; Methods of hand 

 rearing; Shooting over dogs and by driving. 



THE GRAY PARTRIDGE 59-60 



An unsuccessful experiment; Success in Ohio; Efforts to introduce them should 

 continue. 



APPENDIX 61-62 



Twelve gauge loads suggested for field shooting: Comparative loads; "Bulk" 

 and "dense" smokeless and black powder. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. ... . 63-64 



