THE OOLOQI8T 



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NEST OF THE SHARP-TAILED GROUSE 



— A. D. Henderson, Belvedue, Alberta. 



TO PACK A LARGE SHIPMENT OF 

 BIRDS' EGGS 



Secure a chicken egg crate and re- 

 move all the card-board, then line the 

 crate with a sheet of newspaper, cut 

 to fit, then place a thick layer of cot- 

 ton in the bottom and a sheet of paper 

 between each layer of eggs and be 

 sure and nail a good stout cover on 

 top when the crate is packed. In 

 1916 Mr. J. Claire Wood of Detroit, 

 Michigan, sent me over seven hundred 

 sets packed in four crates and only 

 two eggs in the entire lot were 

 broken. 



In 1919 I received a shipment of 

 over seven hundred sets packed in 

 small boxes placed in larger boxes and 

 more than ten eggs were broken, most- 

 ly in the largest sets, and another lot 

 of over four hundred sets and nearly 

 fifty eggs were broken in this lot, 

 mostly in the best sets. It would be 



a good plan to work on half a crate 

 of eggs on this plan, chicken egg 

 crates are not handled so roughly. 

 W. A. Strong, 

 San Jose, Cal. 



FEEDING PRAIRIE CHICKENS 

 Many North Dakota farmers have 

 been feeding Prairie Chickens during 

 the past winter as a means of conserv- 

 ing what is considered the most im- 

 portant bird in the state. Spaces 

 about one hundred feet square were 

 kept clean of snow, comparatively 

 close to houses and barns, and table 

 crumbs, screenings and grain scatter- 

 ed thereon daily, and the wild birds 

 were fed as regularly as barnyard 

 fowl. Steward Lockwood, of the 

 faculty of the North Dakota Agricul- 

 tural College, made an investigation 

 and determined that the Prairie 

 Chicken annually eats many times its 



