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THE GAME BREEDER 



PHEASANTS 



FOR SALE 



A superb lot of Golden, Silver and Amherst Pheasants, just right 

 for breeding this spring and summer. 



PHEASANT EOQS: 



I am now also booking orders for eggs of the following varieties : 

 Mongolian, Ringneck, Chinese, Golden, Silver, Lady Amherst and 

 Reeves. 



WILD DUCK EOQS: 



Wood Duck, Mallard and Gray Call Duck Eggs, 



All the eggs I ship are guaranteed to be from aon-related, pure bred, strong, healthy birds, cor- 

 rectly mated: all eggs are guaranteed not over three days old when they leave my farm. 



Full instructions given with each order as to setting, hatching, feeding and general care of the 

 young birds. 



SPECIAL FOODS: 



I also manufacture a full line of special foods for the successful raising 

 of young pheasants and wild waterfowl, also for feeding the old birds 

 all the year round; write for prices 



WALLACE EVANS GAME FARM, St. Charles, 111. 



Largest and mast successful breeders of pheasants, wild waterfowl, deer, etc.. In the world. 



Member of The Game G»«ild 



Vermin on a Grouse Moor. 



Owen Jones, in, "A Gamekeeper's 

 Notebook," gives the following list of 

 vermin destroyed on a grouse moor in 

 Inverness-Shire, Scotland: "11 foxes, 

 198 wild cats, 246 martens, 106 pole cats, 

 301 stoats and weasels, 67 badgers, 48 

 otters, 78 house cats going Jwild, 27 

 white-tailed sea eagles, 15 golden eagles, 

 18 ospreys, 98 blue hawks, 10 peregrine 

 falcons, 7 orange-legged falcons, 211 

 hobby hawks, 75 kites, 5 marsh barriers, 

 63 goshawks, 285 common buzzards, 371 

 rough-legged buzzards, 3 honey-buzzards, 

 462 kestrels, 78 merlin hawks, 83 hen 

 harriers, 6 gerfalcons, 9 ash-coloured or 

 long blue-tailed hawks, 1431 carrion 

 crows, 475 ravens, 35 horned owls, 71 

 common fern owls, 3 golden owls, 8 mag- 

 pies. This bag was made in three years. 

 A total of nearly 5000 head, giving an 

 average of more than 1500 head a year 

 or about 5 head a day." 



Some of the predacious birds above 

 listed are not considered as harmful to- 

 day as they were when they were de- 

 stroyed and the tendency both of em- 

 ployers and the modern keepers is to ob- 

 serve what game enemies do and to 



spare a good number of birds which it 

 was fashionable to destroy a few years 

 ago. 



A keeper soon discovers a destructive 

 individual, which may belong to a bene- 

 ficial species, and he should, of course,, 

 destroy such an enemy. 



Granting that only a few grouse were 

 taken each year by each of the above 

 enemies which are admitted to be harm- 

 ful, it is evident if no enemies be de- 

 stroyed there would not be enough 

 grouse in any season to warant any 

 shooting for sport, to say nothing about 

 the market which is now abundantly 

 supplied with grouse. 



It must be evident to those who prefer 

 game to vermin that the moor in ques- 

 tion should produce thousands of grouse 

 annually, as it does. If we knew the 

 number of acres in the moor we easily 

 could estimate the probable number of 

 grouse in a good season. 



Those who wish to have grouse on the 

 prairie farms should see that most of 

 the birds and eggs are not destroyed 

 by cats, hawks, crows, foxes, coyotes, 

 snakes and many other game enemies 

 which are known to be harmfitl. 



