26 w. cook's turkey, goose, and pheasant hook. 



The egg should be chopped up fine and mixed with the 

 biscuit meal, and just soaked a little, and not mixed sloppy. 

 The young mustard should be cut up very fine and rubbed 

 iri between the palms of the hands so that it all mixes. 

 I'his should be done twice a day, so that it is perfectly fresh. 



It is surprising how young pheasants will grow if treated 

 in this way. ^^'hen about two days old they may have a few 

 groats, but they should always be split, or oats with the 

 husks taken off, split up in small pieces, similar to coarse 

 oatmeal, may be given. Where a person has none of 

 these, it is well to buy some coarse oatmeal, sift it, and give 

 the pheasants the siftings. 



The attendant should always test the groats or oatmeal to 

 see they are not stale. There will be a sharp hot taste with 

 them if they are stale, if fresh, the taste is sweet. When 

 young pheasants are noticed to be relaxed in the bowels, 

 give a little broken dry rice the first few days, that will stop 

 It quicker than anything else. After they are three days old 

 they may have a little hemp seed once a day, jlist a few 

 kernels, they are stimulating. The first three weeks is 

 where the greatest danger lies of young pheasants going 

 wrong, but if they are attended to carefully very few die. 



When young pheasants are running in their natural state, 

 they live principally upon slugs, grubs, maggots, wire- 

 worms, and a great number of green flies, some of which 

 are so minute they cannot be seen with the naked eye- 

 When therefore they are brought up in large numbers 

 and thickly on the ground they should have a substitute 

 for these. Gentles, which most people call maggots, are 

 the best to give them for this purpose. 



