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THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



quail into poultry will save the small game birds — to the 

 more northern portions of the United States, at least. 



I might add just a word about the grouse and pheas- 

 ant. The ruffed grouse is "our Northern partridge." 

 It, too, is disappearing ; attempts at introducing foreign 

 grouse have not been happily successful, and efforts to 

 raise them in confinement may fairly be called failures. 



YounR Quail, Two Months Old, at the Connecticut Agricultural College. 

 (Courtesy of Outing Pubhshing Company.) Photo by Herbert K. Job 



In a certain locality in the western part of New York 

 State the farmers are almost in rebellion over the law 

 against killing the pheasants which are making serious 

 inroads on their crops. " Somebody " liberated one, or 

 some, there but a few years ago, and this is the result, 

 they say. On this matter of introduction of pheasants 

 the Government Report, after stating that Ringneck and 

 English Ringneck have been introduced since 1880 into 



