PREFACE. 



PERHAPS, in sending out my book on 

 Pheasants, Turkeys, and Geese, it 

 would be well to give a few of the 

 reasons that have led me to undertake 

 its publication. For some years past 

 b'6x^;4,i:<vr) SNS^ many persons have written me, asking 

 for more full and detailed information respecting Turkeys 

 and Geese than the necessarily limited chapters contained 

 in my " Poultry Breeder and Feeder " could possibly give 

 them. I have noted these applications, and now having 

 found time amid all my other calls to devote to this 

 subject, I have put into printed form the results of many 

 experiments, much observation, and a long and wide 

 experience of the birds I speak of, and the persons for 

 whose information I am writing. 



Pheasant breeding and rearing is an industry 

 carried on very largely in some parts of our country, 

 but on going over some of the Pheasantries, I 

 was sorry to find much that seemed to me mis- 

 management, and -many things that needed speedy 

 reformation, so I have combined in this little work some 

 chapters upon this subject, it being one in which I am 

 deeply interested, and upon which I have spent a good 

 deal of time in patient observation. All the information 



