14 W. COOKS TURKEY, GOOSE, AND PHEASANT BOOK. 



are kept in confinement, but it affects pheasants far more 

 than fowls. 



Then again it not only affects the old stock birds, but 

 also the young ones very materially. For instance, if a 

 person buys loo eggs from a pheasant breeder, where the 

 stock birds have been fed on buckwheat and barley, and 

 I GO eggs from another place, where the stock birds 

 have been fed chiefly on Indian corn, he will find the 

 eggs from the former produce considerably stronger and 

 healthier young birds than the latter. The strong youngsters 

 too will grow much faster, and there will be fewer deaths 

 amongst the stock birds which have been fed on French 

 buckwheat, wheat arid barley (I mention French buck- 

 wheat because it is so much better than the English or 

 German for feeding). 



In many cases, where a pheasant breeder has been 

 rearing young ones, they have rot brought up more 

 than twenty-five out of loo when the eggs have come 

 from stock birds which have been fed largely on Indian 

 corn. This I have proved to be a fact over and over 

 again. Yet strange to say people often wonder why it is 

 their young pheasants die. 



I have tried the experiment myself, and have also 

 visited many pheasantries during my travels, that is over 

 30,000 miles a year, lecturing and giving advice on the 

 subject, so that I speak from experience in this respect. 



Again, when young pheasants are weakly they are more 

 susceptible to gapes, cold, roup, and congestion of the lungs. 



I believe there are more young pheasants die from 

 the latter cause than any other, but there are many lost with 



