as to what success was had with the birds shipped in Lincoln county. The altitude 

 is lower and the season longer, led to the belief that conditions were perhaps 

 more favorable for pheasant raising in the Tobacco Plains country than else- 

 where; however, the results in Lincoln county have not so far proved satis- 

 factory. 



Six pairs of these birds were sent to Kalispell and placed in the hands of 

 Mrs. John Kennedy, an experienced breeder of fine poultry. Two of the birds 

 received by her died, but from the five pheasant hens remaining she raised one 

 hundred and fifty pheasants, and had a number of late eggs from which perhaps 

 fifty more birds might have been raised, but it was not deemed advisable to bring 

 them out. Mrs. Kennedy's facilities in the way of suitable ground for the birds are 



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too small for raising pheasants in large numbers, as the same was comprised in 

 one city lot; but she met with good success, and seemed to have no more trouble 

 than with domestic poultry. The young birds ate all the potato bugs on her 

 place, hence the pheasant should prove a valuable asset to our farmers. 



Of the birds so raised by Mrs. Kennedy fifty were planted on two islands 

 in Flathead lake, viz.. Shelter Island and Cedar Island. These islands contain 

 about thirty acres each of land, with an abundance of excellent shelter and free 

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