QUAILOLOGY - LETTERS & CLIPPINGS. 53 



of fresh water. Be sure the quails have grit; get mica crystal 

 grit, pigeon size. In the breeding season feed in the morning 

 a mash consisting of 1 teacup of bran, 1 teacup of corn meal, 

 1-2 teacup of beef scraps, 1 teaspoonful of Egg-0; mix with 

 hot water and feed hot. This is enough for 20 quails. Do not 

 make the mash loppy. Wet it just enough to make it stick 

 together. Give finely cut oyster shells. 



If these directions are followed quails ought to lay lots of 

 eggs and hatch strong young birds. We raise hundreds every 

 year of each variety. 



Egg-0 is the best thing known to feed any and all wild birds. 



I have fed it for 6 years and can raise 85 per cent. Will 

 answer any questions on care of wild game birds. 



C. L. Darlington, Stoneham, Mass. 



A Successful Fancier. 



Hope Mclntyre of Sioux City, Iowa, writes us a very interest- 

 ing letter with reference to his success in raising quail in 

 confinement. 



In part he says: I purchased a live female quail from a boy 

 who had trapped it in the fall of 1898. I immediately cut one 

 wing and put it in the window of the Niagara restaurant, in 

 which I am interested. I left it uncaged and no screen. For 

 the first week had all kinds of trouble in keeping the bird in 

 its new quarters, but with persistent work and gentle treat- 

 ment the little one at last showed signs of contentment. Two 

 weeks later another female was secured by the same boy and 

 came into my possession. I found no such trouble with it as 

 with the first bird, both growing more like pets than wild 

 birds eating berries and green stuff such as lettuce, etc. from 

 my hand. 



In the spring of 1899 Conductor Butler of the Sioux City & 



