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' 3. In April, separate the pairs, having each pair in a 

 small pen by itself. Some can remain in the larger pen 

 together, if there are not enough small pens. 



4. Hatch out the eggs and raise the young with ban- 

 tams. Do not attempt incubators and brooders. 



5. Put the breeders back into the large pen together 

 by the latter part of July, unless they wish to incubate. 



6. In late fall or early winter, catch up what young are 

 desired. The rest can be left wild to breed naturally, next 

 summer. Feed regularly under shelters throughout the 

 winter, to hold them on the land, as also by planted 

 areas of grain left standing for them. In severe winter 

 weather coveys might be shut up and cared for, and let 

 go again. 



Pheasants. Pheasants are very widely reared in 

 large numbers. The game farm of West Virginia 

 has distributed two hundred pheasants, the Iowa 

 farm seven hundred, the California farm four thou- 

 sand, the New Jersey farm forty-four hundred, the 

 Connecticut farm six thousand, and the New York 

 farm ten thousand. Mr. Donald Mac Vicar hatches 

 annually about four thousand. 



Ruffed grouse. Dr. Clifton Hodge was the first 

 man successfully to rear ruffed grouse. Mr. Her- 

 bert K. Job has conducted a number of successful 

 experiments with them. Mr. Rogers raised seventy- 

 five young grouse in one season. The American 

 Game Protective and Propagation Association has 

 raised them for three successive generations on its 

 game farm at South Carver, Massachusetts. 



Wild turkeys. Wild turkeys have been success- 



