C H A V T E R I \ . 



MANAUH^IKA'T OF PHEASANTS IN PRKSERVKS 

 (CONTINUED). 



FEKDING IN C0YE1;TS. 



Pi HI'] rODJ) necessiiry to keep tutj-etlier a laro-e stuck 

 SMji of pheasants during tlie winter niontLs, and prevent 



f^ tliem stravino- to adioiuintj- preserves, may be 

 ' snpplied in various modes. The hirds ma}- either Le 

 liand-fed day liy day in the same mannei- as domestic 

 fowls ; or from troughs which are so constructed as to 

 prevent the food heing accessibk' to smaller hirds ; or they 

 may be sujijilied with small stacks of unthrasbed corn, from 

 which to help themselves. 



If fell by hand, a lixed place is necessary, to which the 

 pheasants must be accustomed to resort at a particular hour, 

 otherwise the sjjarrciws and other small birds wdl have far 

 more than their fair share (if the grain, ])articularly in severe 

 weather when the ground is frozen hard. Fed in this manner, 

 the birds become almost as tame as f;irm-vard fowls. In 

 ordei' to accustom them to une spot, at the end of September 

 or earlier, according to the season, carry a few bundles of 

 beans and barley, m the straw, to the spots in the coverts 

 which are selected for leeding pla.ces ; by watching these 

 bundles it will soon be found when thev have attracted the 

 notice of the birds, and when it is observed that they hav 

 been attacking them, the better plan is to ]ni\{ them apart, s 

 as to enable the corn to be found more readily. When tl 



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