52 QUAILOLOGY - LETTERS & CLIPPINGS. 



from depressions in which the rain could form pools. 



Each pen should contain a plentiful supply of loose straw 

 and prairie grass for the young birds to hide in. A lot of cut 

 brush in one corner or along one entire end, makes the best 

 resting place. 



The best results will be had by keeping only one pair of 

 adult birds in a pen. 



After they have been placed in their pens they should be 

 disturbed as little as possible. 



The pens should be so built that food and water can be sup- 

 plid without entering them. 



My henslaveraged 12 eggs a setting, although I have had them 

 lay as many as 18. A few days before it is time for the young 

 to appear I begin feeding hard boiled eggs and stale crackers 

 mixed, together with dried ants' eggs and plenty of seeds. 



When the young birds appeared I gave them a liberal supply 

 of meal worms, and sometimes a little boiled beef, chopped 

 fine. 



In about six weeks the young are able to take care of them- 

 selves. Then they can be removed; and, if not too late in the 

 season, the old birds will at once begin laying again. How- 

 ever, I seldom had good sucees with the second brood. The 

 young never seemed so strong, nor did they grow so fast as 

 the first. 



I always let the hen do her own setting, but know of sev- 

 eral persons who placed the eggs under domestic fowls 



C. T. Metzger. 



(Note.— Mr. Metzgers present address is unknown.— Ed.) 



Natural History Notes. 



Receeation, N. Y. City. ($1.00 per year.) 



I feed my quails cracked corn, whole wheat, buckwheat, 

 hemp seed, barley and maggots. Give each kind of feed sep- 

 aratly and only once a day. Give that at noon. Also plenty 



