THE GAME BREEDER 



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Rearing Field After Cloudburst. 



Tiirds but I do not feel able to write 

 about them. I have not so much time 

 to devote to the pheasants, as I have 

 other duties to attend to. 



The Tennessee sportsmen are just be- 

 ginning to realize that something else 

 besides the passage of new laws by the 

 legislature is needed to check the rapid 



decrease of their game birds. I am 

 fully satisfied from my experiences with 

 small numbers that the bobwhites can 

 be propagated successfully if given 

 proper attention in the Southern States. 

 I hope to see the experiment tried out 

 in the near future by the State game 

 warden. 



GRAY PARTRIDGES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. 



English and Asiatic Partridges. 



It has become a well established cus- 

 tom to replenish the home stocks of part- 

 ridges from Belgium, Germany and Hun- 

 gary, In all likelihood these sources will 

 not be available for the next few years 

 and proprietors and tenants must take 

 the best means they can of keepng up 

 their head of game. 



For some time partridge rearing has 

 been conducted with much success. The 

 tasks of hatching are entrusted to any 

 light variety of domestic fowls capable 

 of close setting. The youngsters are 

 gradually introduced to a male adult of 

 their own species, who eventually takes 

 full charge of them and marches them 

 ofif to their natural habitats. 



It has been suggested that the lerwa 

 partridges of Asia might prove excellent 



substitutes for Belgians and Hungarians 

 so far as turning-down purposes are 

 concerned. They are handsome birds 

 with upper parts black, striped with 

 gray, and feet and bills red. They feed 

 principally on the tender shoots of plants 

 and once on the wing they are capital 

 fliers. Many naturalists are of the opin- 

 ion that they would do admirably in this 

 country (England). 



Another foreigner which the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild strongly recommends 

 for importation is the bearded partridge, 

 the home of which is in Siberia. It is 

 to be feared, however, that nothing can 

 be done in the way of introducing 

 strange birds from abroad until the war 

 is over. — Shooting Times and British 

 Sportsman. 



It is difificult and almost impossible to 



