By Ferd. J. Sudow, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 



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Pheasant Breeding Yields an Enormous Profit 

 A Fortune to an Industrious Breeder 



(It pays 1,000 per cent better than chicken raising.) 

 Pheasant meat sells from $3.00 to $20.00 a pound in the markets. 



Pheasant breeding will soon come to the front. The meat far excels any kind of game 

 in delicacy and flavor. It costs no more to raise pheasants than it costs to raise chickens, 



in fact not as much, as pheasants are small 

 feeders. Chicken meat sells for 20 cents 

 a pound, pheasant meat sells from $3.00 

 to $20.00 a pound in the open market. 

 Again chicken feathers sell for 25 cents a 

 pound. Pheasant feathers sell as high as 

 30 cents each feather for millinery and fly 

 fishhook purposes. Ta,xidermists pay as 

 high as $15.00 for skins for stuffing and 

 mounting purposes. A fortune can be 

 made in a short period to breed pheasants 

 by the 1,000. A pair of pheasants will 

 yield a yearly profit of from $40.00 to 

 $300.00. English, Chinese, Ringneck and 

 Mongolian pheasants are bought up in 

 great quantities by our wealthy sportsmen for the purpose of stocking their preserves; also 

 sold in the open market with feathers on in large cities at a high price and in great demand. 

 About 500,000 pheasants are imported annually for the American market, both dead and 

 alive, for table, millinery, taxidermy, etc., purposes. Also for stocking game preserves. 



ELLIOTT PHEASANTS 



IMPEYAN PHEASANTS 



Our wealthy sports are fast following the English Lords for a pheasant invitation shoot of 

 1,000 birds killed in a day of which we read about frequently iu England. Great many gun 

 clubs are leasing small islands along the coast in the east for the purpose of holding pheasant 

 shoots. I furnished to such an island for a private club 800 pheasants just for a day's shoot. 



