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THE GAME BREEDER 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



Prize Quail. 



Mr. D. Kalmar, one of our prize win- 

 ners, writes, "Many thanks for the blue 

 quail. They arrived in excellent con- 

 dition and I am hoping to see them lay 

 this season. I shall report the progress 

 made." 



More Prize Quail. 



General Wingate writes that the 

 scaled quail we sent to the Wyandanch 

 Club arrived all right. They have been 

 placed in separate coops and seem to be 

 doing very well and will be turned out 

 shortly. All are very much interested 

 in what will be the result. 



Twice last summer we were called up 

 from the dinner table by the cry of dis- 

 tress from little pheasants and each time 

 killed an eighteen-inch garter snake that 

 was attempting to swallow them; both 

 birds died in a few days. I wonder how 

 many little quail fall a prey to the garter 

 and other snakes. 



We had one ring-necked hen that in- 

 cubated her own eggs in the aviary last 

 season and brought off a brood of young 

 pheasants. 



Both the silver and Reeves pheasants 

 are more expert on the perch than our 

 ring-necks are. The last named fre- 

 quently fall to the ground when perch- 

 ing on the trees at night. 



Periods of Incubation. 



Wild duck eggs (the mallards) may 

 be said, roughly, to hatch in about twen- 

 ty-six days. Capt. W. Coape Oates, a 

 capable duck breeder and author, says : 

 "Duck eggs take from twenty-four to 

 twenty-nine days to hatch as a rule, 

 though occasionally a lot of eggs that 

 have been put down soon after being 

 laid will hatch in twenty-three days, if 

 set under a good hen. He regards twen- 

 ty-six days as "the usual period of in- 

 cubation." 



The period of incubation of pheasant 

 eggs, as stated by Maxwell, is twenty- 

 three or twenty-four days. 



The period of incubation of quail is 

 about 24 days. The cock bird often will 

 hatch the eggs if the hen dies after lay- 

 ing the eggs. 



Turkey Hen as a Foster-Mother. 



J as. M. Perry 



You may tell your readers that the tur- 

 key hen makes a good foster mother for 

 ringnecked pheasants. With her it is 

 not necessary to coop them up till they 

 learn the "cluck" as it is with the chick- 

 en hen. It is best not to have any young 

 turkeys in the flock as they monopolize 

 the mother turkey and oppress or tyran- 

 ize over the little pheasants. 



More Quail Wanted. 



Mr. H. H. Shannon, 



Long Island Game Breeders Assn. 



Dear Sir: 



Mr. C. Von Lengerke advises us that 

 you are raising quail for sale. 



We have been raising a sum of money 

 locally and can possibly get three or four 

 hundred dollars with which to buy some 

 birds. Kindly advise us if you can do 

 anything for us. Let us know just what 

 you can do as to quantity, price and time 

 of delivery. 



If you are not in a position to do 

 anything, can you inform us of someone 

 who is? 



Yours very truly, 



Newburgh Gun & Rifle Club Inc., 



R. W. Whitehill, Secretary. 



The Long Island Game Breeders As- 

 sociation will breed quail of various spe- 

 cies to be harvested not otherwise than 

 by shooting. When the laws are amend- 

 ed so as to encourage the profitable 

 breeding of quail these birds will be more 

 abundant in New York and more prof- 

 itable than pheasants are because sports- 

 men prefer them to all other feathered 

 game and they are excellent food. Ad- 

 vertisers in the Game Breeder supply 

 quail; mostly Mexican. 



