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PHEASANT.'i FOE LOVEETS AKD AVIARIES. 



ISTO my keeper's Itill for four liimdred birds was, egg's, 

 tr. (;,.. (JcL ; 1)i'ead, ,Ll 12,v. \\cl. ; milk, 12 ll.v. M.; suet, 

 l:i.s. (_»/.; 'secrets,' 7x. t)-/. — €10 ll.v. 6-lr/. To this must 

 lie iidded Indian corn, meal, and rabliits ; but I cannot 

 give tlie exact quantity of each, as dogs were fed from the 

 me;d barrel, and the rabbits were not counted; il' 8.*:. is, I 

 consider, a fair estimate of the cost i)f what was used for the 

 birds — making a total of £-(.) for four hundred, or 1*. each. 

 About the 'secrets' I can say nothing, except that none are 

 recjuired." 



" In 1878, fur three hundred under my supervision, tlie 

 cost was : Very coarse Scotch meal, t9 }^)s. 6d.; milk, V-'> \ 

 eggs, tl ir)x. ; rennet, L'.v. 8fZ. ; wheat, 8.v. 8r/. ; bi'eail, 

 5.V. W \d. ; sheep's panuches (two hundred), tl o,v. ; ahorse, 

 JO-s. ; a, cow, 'is. ; a sheep, 5.?. The last thi'ee for producing 

 maggots. 'i'(_ital — Ll7 12.s'. 'Jhd. No rabbits were used. 

 With this supply of food, at the cost of a little more than 

 l.s. a head, not only ^vere 97 per cent, of the birds reared, l:iut 

 I think they were as fine as ]iossible." 



The cost of labiiur, protection, &c., varies so much in 

 different localities and circumstances that it is impracticable 

 to dra.w u]i even a rough average of gxmeral application. 

 Under very favourable conditions, as Mr. Cade demonstrate^, 

 ]dieasants may be reared at as small a cost as l.v. a head for 

 food, and in others the cost rises to ilv. or even lo.v. 



