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Points on Care and Breeding of Pheasants, etc. 



No doubt they would have repeated this sport had I been able to furnish the birds. Live 

 pigeon shooting is now prohibited by law in the States of New York, Massachusetts, Connec- 

 ticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana ; also quail cannot be trapped or shipped excepting by special 

 permit, and our rich cracksmen are compelled to fall back to some other wing birds. Ex- 

 pense is no object to them ; what they want is sport. I am convinced pheasants for shooting 





MAKLHLRIAK PHEAbANTb 



will be more in demand from year to year. I bought every pheasant procurable in thirty 

 States and Canada last fall, which were offered at reasonable prices. Golden Pheasants are 

 valuable for their feathers for fly hook manufacturers, the crest and tipped feathers bring 

 as high as 80 cents a dozen feathers, tail feathers 25 cents each. Golden skins for mounting 

 bring as high as $8 00 each, and there is no handsomer sight than to see a dozen of these 

 birds in a pen. The cost of keeping a pair of golden pheasants is about thirty cents a year. 



SILVER PHEASANTS 



Paint your roosts and coops occasionally with kerosene, in order to keep lice from 

 breeding. According to statistics, lice pests cost the farmers of the country over $700,000, 

 000. 



Make it a point to always keep your tools in the same place, where you can find them 

 readily. 



