THE GAME BREEDER 186 



record the fulfillment of our most cher- ceilings and of course anyone can have 



ished ambition — the restoration of quail a good view without interrupting them, 



on toast. Quail shooting will be fine for I shall be able to tell you all about them 



all hands in many States where this bird when I come home." 

 at present is on the song bird list and [Sent by The Spratts Patent Ltd., Newark, 



where shooting is prohibited at all times. N " J; who make the foods for S ame birds 



The articles on hand-rearing will be and dogs - ] . 



followed by some finely illustrated ar- Recreation p ark for 0rder of Qwls> 

 tides about some of the quail farmers _ . , 



where quail are bred wild in protected u Ref f ™g to the recent announcement 



fields, and where thousands of quail are that the 0rder of 1 ,° wls ' a well-known 



shot every season. We hope to have some organization, would soon establish a 



color illustrations for these articles. The ! ar S e recreation park for the benefit of 



rapid increase in the number of members J? members the Supreme Secretary, 



of the society will probably make this Geo DBeroth of South Bend, Ind., has 



possible. A plan for doubling our mem- klndl y furnished the following mforma- 



bership will be submitted to readers of tl0n at our re q uest : 



The Game Breeder next month in a spe- The Order of Owls is an organization 



cial letter. • founded eleven years ago. It is a social, 



• — — fraternal society and boasts that it is a 



War Birds. Bohemian society of good fellows who 



The following letter was received a believe in love, laughter and the king- 

 few weeks ago by the Bird Food Spe- dom of heaven on earth. It now has ap- 

 cialty Department of Spratt's Patent, proximately 300,000 members and 2,130 

 Limited, London, from a British "Tom- lodges. Its lodges and members are lo- 

 my" "somewhere in France" : cated in every State in this country, in 



"I will now try and tell you a little all the provinces of Canada, in the dif- 

 about the bird life out here and what I ferent territorial possessions of the 

 have seen and heard. The larks are United States and in the English-speak- 

 quite as good as our own from a sing- ing colonies of Great Britain, including 

 ing point of view, and it is simply splen- Australia, New Zealand and South 

 did to hear them when we are in the Africa. The membership of the Owls is 

 trenches. What is more remarkable is made up of all classes of men and the 

 to hear several larks singing in the air supreme officers recently determined to 

 and at the same time shells bursting all supply the membership of the order with 

 round at the airmen, but it does not stop an ideal park and preserve for hunting 

 the larks. The finest bit of music I and fishing as well as camping and vacat- 

 have heard out here was the song of a ing out of doors. After much investiga- 

 thrush. It came and sat on an iron chim- tion, a tract of four thousand acres was 

 ney in front of the billet where I am selected near Gaysville, Windsor county, 

 now staying and sang for quite an hour, Vermont. This tract is in the Green 

 and it has been seen and heard there mountains. It is located upon and about 

 several times since. It was really the Mt. Lyon. It contains a number of trout 

 best thrush I have ever heard. The streams and much game, including bear, 

 place around here is thick with chaf- deer, rabbits and grouse and other things, 

 finches and it is nothing unusual to have The order will, within a few weeks, be- 

 two or three singing at once along the gin the construction of hunting lodges 

 fire trench near by, but they have not a upon this tract, and beginning with the 

 good finish to their song from a chaf- ensuing spring, the actual rearing of 

 finch singer's point, though I have seen pheasants and other game birds will be 

 some good specimens for the show taken up and carried on upon this pre- 

 bench. I have seen birds of all kinds serve, and the birds reared will be liber- 

 here, but I was surprised when I found ated to stock not only the preserve but 

 the house martins in the cowsheds and other territory to which the birds may 

 stables ; there are dozens of nests in the migrate. 



