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It has now been proved beyond doubt that the use of highly stimulating foods in rearing 
young pheasants is injurious in the highest degree; that, though it causes for a short time rapid 
and unnatural growth, progress cannot afterwards be sustained; and when such premature forcing 
has been resorted to, the great number of small, ill-grown, and weakly birds to be met with, 
when shooting time comes round, in preserves, is the direct consequence of this high-pressure 
overwork of the digestive organs. Like dram-drinking, it just gives a spurt for the time, at the 
expense of solid, strong, gradual gain of tissue and flesh. 
Where is the gamekeeper who has not been heard to say, “Why, those birds were the 
most forward I ever saw?” but gradually they seemed to decline and dwindle down, some dying, 
others pining, and scarcely having sufficient life in them to make their escape on the approach 
of vermin, much less to rise and go off like a rocket on the approach of the beater. Every 
kind of hot and pungent condimented food is mistaken and wrong in principle; birds do not 
for health require it, and the nearer you come to natural food the greater will be your success 
in rearing young pheasants. Now, what are the natural foods? Surely grain of various sorts, 
seeds, bulbs, and insects, with a flux of roughish grit for the crop, and certain forms of lime, 
such as are contained in shells and bones when crushed. 
Some years have now elapsed since we introduced our Meal and Crissel. Hvery year sees. 
a rapidly increasing sale, which warrants us in saying that there is no other food for rearing and 
feeding pheasants that can for one moment compare with it; for, although it is not a sharply 
stimulating food, it does, from being thoroughly cooked, nourish, satisfy, and digest more easily 
than any other food, producing no ill effects on the stomachs of the young birds, thereby rendering 
them. more able to withstand the cold weather of the spring, and encouraging the steady, strong, 
and healthy growth so much to be desired. 
Pheasants, or any other kind of game or poultry, can be reared from the shell on our 
Meal and Crissel; no other food need be used, the Crissel taking the place of insect life, giving 
all the warmth that is necessary. 
Gamekeepers are solicited to bring up one brood on them this year, and compare it with 
any other. We haye no fear of the result, but are confident of them as customers next year, 
as we speak from practical experience extending over several years. A sample packet of both 
the Meal and Crissel will be sent by post on application. : 
Chopped eggs may be used a day or two, but we do not recommend them. If given, 
they can be mixed with the Pheasant Meal. It should always be borne in mind that hard- 
boiled eggs are perhaps the most indigestible things known. They lnll more young pheasants 
every year than any one, except those who have practically reared pheasants, has any idea of. 
We have tried them, and know that they produce the effect we describe. 
Now is the time to give our Meal and “CRISSEL” to the Aviary Birds to ensure a 
large and fertile stock of eggs. 
Both the Meal and the Crissel must be kept in a dry place. 
Address: “SPRATTS PATENT,’ Bermondsey, London, 8.5. 
