QUAILOLOGY. 



Part 11. 



DOMESTICATION, PROPAGATION, 



CARE & TREATMENT OF WILD 



QUAIL IN CONFINEMENT. 



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Introductory 



While it is a little departure from the established custom to 

 make introductory remarks at this time, we never-the-less wish 

 here to sound a warning note to those few who are ever ready to 

 "take-up and jump-into" a new hobby, culture, fancy or venture. 



The taming of and careing for the Quail is by no means a 

 trivial affair, and to those who think it such we want to say, 

 study the following pages carefully, and weigh in your own mind 

 fairly and squarely, without imagination, what there is for you 

 to do in the culture of the Quail. 



We do not say that anyone can raise Quail, because they can- 

 not, unless they care for them properly. True, there is no great 

 amount of labor and attention required, but that little must be done. 



The Quail, while it is one of our game birds, is also one of the 

 innocent creatures of God's creation that bids our esteem in its 

 native haunts and our careful attention and kind treatment in 

 confinement. The successful one in the culture is he or she that 

 loves it, takes naturally to it, sees in it the beautiful lines of 

 nature's handiwork and cultivates them. The mere"water, feed 

 and sell" man may succeed fairly well, but much more the one 

 who studies carefully the peculiarities, habits, food and conditions 

 that Mother Nature produces in her world-wide aviary, and 



