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



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Pheasant Market 



A game law soon will be established in the State of New York, allowing Ringneck 

 Pheasants to he sold in open market all the year around, the same as fowl. Our epicurians 

 want game meat for their tables; the markets do not offer anything in this line. Guineas 

 are offered in restaurants for grouse. These latter birds bring five dollars a pair, shot, in 

 markets, weighing less than a pound and a half each. Shot quail bring ten dollars per 

 dozen, weighing not more than six pounds to a dozen. 



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ENGLISH PHEASANT REARING AT THE ILLINOIS GAME FARM 



To Keep Pheasants from Straying 

 To Trap Pheasants 



Preventing pheasants from straying from preserves, the use of raisins scattered in their 

 coverts, is particularly advantageous, as they are exceedingly fond of them. So alluring 

 are raisins to pheasants, that they are oftentimes captured by poachers, by means of a fish 

 hook, baited with a raisin and suspended about the height of a running bird from the ground. 



Crows the Worst Enemies of Birds 



Rooks and crows are the most destructive birds to pheasants. They will suck the eggs 

 and eat the young. A gamekeeper reported last year that he counted in his preserves, over 

 a hundred empty shells in one day. These rascals should be exterminated and the wholesale 

 destruction begun at once. They are the most bitter enemies of pheasants. The best time 

 for their extermination is during breeding, to kill the young and old at the same time. 



A Telegram from California in May 



"Please price pair of Amhersts, that will nest this season." 



Now, dear reader it is a well-known fact in changing domestic fowl to new quarters, 

 stops their laying about two weeks. A pair of pheasants sent from New York to California 

 in May, changing climate and quarters, I am positive will hardly breed that season at all. I 

 advise to get the birds as early as possible in the season to insure breeding with them as cer- 

 tainty. 



