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reared, we see no reason why they may not be 

 successfully introduced, and abundantly supply any 

 country in the world. 



The following directions for rearing them under 

 liens, have been, we know, adopted with success. A 

 sufficient number of eggs being provided, put them 

 under a hen, that has kept her nest for three or four 

 days; and if two or three hens happen to sit on the 

 same day, an opportunity will be afforded of shifting 

 the good eggs. At the end of ten or twelve days, 

 examine, and throw away those that are bad, and 

 set the same hen or hens again, if sitting hens 

 should be numerous. The hens having set their 

 full time, such of the young Pheasants as are already 

 hatched, must be put into a basket with a piece of 

 flannel, till the hen has done hatching. Then place 

 the whole brood under a frame, with a net over it, 

 and a covered place for the hen, so as to confine her, 

 but leave the young Pheasants at liberty to leave or 

 return to her at pleasure. Their food must consist 

 of boiled eggs cut small, boiled milk and bread, 

 alum curd, and ants' eggs, a little of each, and 

 often. Rice may be also given, softened by boiling, 

 and instead of ants' eggs, which in some places are 

 not easily procured, or, in addition to them, maggots 

 from decayed flesh may be used. Artificial ants' 

 eggs may be easily made, composed of flour, beaten 

 up with an egg and shell together, and the pellets 

 rubbed between the fingers to a proper size. 



After two or three days, they will be acquainted 

 with the call of their foster-mother, and they ma 

 then be allowed to run upon a grass-plot, or else- 

 where ; the edge of a corn-field is very desirable, 



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