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



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Breeding Pheasants in America 



The Kendrick Fheasantriea, City Park, Denver, the largest Fheaaantries on the American Continent 



Thousands Reared in Colorado. Hardy Game Birds for the United States and Canada. 

 Pleasant and Profitable Occupation for Men or Women. How to Feed and Care for Them. 



Written by J. ALDEN LORING 



(A widely known naturalist who accompanied ex- President Roosevelt on his trip to Africa) 



By permission of W. P. Kendrick 



In America the rearing of Asiatic pheasants is practically unknown when compared to 

 the extensive manner it has for centuries been carried on in the old country. Until the last 

 decade our native game has supphed America's wants, but cheap firearms and repeating and 

 automatic guns have so increased the number of hunters and decreased the amount of game, 

 that the prairie chicken, sharp-tailed grouse, ruffed grouse and bob-white are practically ex- 

 tinct, when their abundance in former years is taken into consideration. 



Strange to say, most of the sportsmen and the gun clubs that have taken a serious interest 

 in the welfare of otir fauna, instead of trying to solve the problem of successfully propagating 

 the native game birds, have spent most of their money in introducing and liberating foreign 

 game birds. 



The greatest success so far attained in this line, has been in Washington and Oregon, 

 where eighteen Chinese pheasants were liberated about 1882, and at the present writing they 

 are very abundant ; although large numbers of them are annually killed by hunters. 



The so-called English ringneck pheasant was introduced into the Genesee valley of 

 New York several years ago and under present protection they are multiplying and spreading 



Rearing fields of The Kendrick Pheasantries, showing the brooder coops in a one hundred and sixty acre field 

 of alfalfa and orchard grass mixed. These brooder coops are set 30 or 40 feet apart, but it is 

 not necessary to l^ve them so far 



rapidly. Many owners of private game preserves have successfully stocked their lands with 

 pheasants. 



This sudden demand for game birds for restocking purposes has caused many pheasan- 

 tries to be established throughout the country. The largest of these is the Kendrick 

 Pheasantry at Denver, Colorado. Its owner, Mr. W. F. Kendrick, is one of those liberal 



