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of the sides for a second pen, than to place more than six 

 adult birds in a larger one. These pens should be moved to 



HURDLE FOii PHEASANT 1'KN. 



fresh ground every month, except during the laying season ; 

 and for this purpose a door should be made in one out of 

 each four, which will also admit the keeper at all times to 

 the interior. When, therefore, the pen is first put up, take 

 care and place the door on that side where the removal is to 

 be effected, and then by fixing three other hurdles to that 

 side, another pen is completed, and the keeper, opening the 

 door between the old and the new, enters the former and 

 gently drives the birds into the latter, shuts the door, and 

 takes down the three hurdles which were used for the first 

 pen, and are now no longer wanted. When the square is 

 completed a strong rail is tied to four props across the middle 

 space, and over this faggots, or loose brushwood are arranged 

 so as to leave a run underneath, when the birds are secure from 

 interference. If the birds are to have their wings cut no 

 net is necessary, but if not a common net is fixed over the 

 top, and in that way the birds are confined. 



Wlien tlie feathers of the wings are to be cut, the birds must 

 be caught; and for this purpose a net, something like a 

 landing net fur fish, is to be employed, but larger. A strong 



