92 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



to this time we had purchased for setting purposes, 408 domestic hens. 

 ]\Iost of these hens will be kept over for duty next year. 



The report of the same date shows 241 quail eggs laid, 149 birds 

 hatched, and 48 eggs still incubating. The quail had suffered more 

 from the noise than had the pheasants. 



The buildings for the attendants at the farm were completed and 

 occupied on June 15th. 



During this construction period, the follomng buildings and pens 

 were completed : Main rearing field consisting of 472 pens of the regu- 

 lation size of 24 feet square ; a breeding section of 48 pens ; one 

 domestic poultry house large enough to house 400 hens ; one three-room 

 sleeping compartment for men ; one four-room cookhouse and mess 

 hall; one storage room and cooking room with facilities for cooking 

 pheasant food ; one 3000-gallon tank and tower for domestic water and 

 one 5-room cottage with basement. 



Game bird farming is not so very different from any other farming 

 line, only in the product and the equipment used. The work is so well 

 standardized that with tlie usual amount of care and attention, a well- 

 equipped farm will produce about the same amount of birds in one 

 place as well as in another. 



