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gots, I start a new hatch every 5th or behind. After close examination dis- 



6th day thereafter. When poults are covered that it had a piece of hard cus- 



4 days old, I begin to feed them also tard egg clogged in beneath its tongue 



some of Wallace Evans' (St. Charles, and that it could not eat very well on 



111.), pheasant food No. 1 and when a that account. After I had removed this 



week and a half old also some of his • — which caused considerable bleeding, — 



food No. 3. The food vessels are always it quickly recovered and is now as large 



kept thoroughly clean. After the poults and strong as the rest. Now they are 



are about 5 weeks old, I discontinue more than eight weeks old and already 



feeding egg-custard and maggots. After larger than their foster mother, begin- 



they are eight weeks old, I feed them ning to change colors and losing their 



Wallace Evans' pheasant food Nos. 2 and first tail feathers. They are very tame, 



4 and plenty of green food, lettuce, dan- but very swift on their legs and good 



delion, lawn clippings, etc. This way I flyers. Later on I shall put them in -a 



have been feeding my young Goldens run 24x8x4 feet. 



and also my Mongolians and certainly There are many ways of raising pheas- 



with great success. ants. And my method described is cer- 



Up to this date I have not lost one tainly not the only way, but it is a 



of those nine Mongolians. Some time method which I have followed with great 



ago one of them seemed to be slacking success. 



QUAIL BREEDING FOR SPORT AND FOR PROFIT. 



Part I. 



By D. W. Huntington, 



Losses Due to Farm Machinery. having special covers provided for the 



Since many quail nest in fields of grass birds at the sides of the fields in which 



and grain there is much danger of losses some can be induced to nest by driving 



due to farm machinery when the hay them out of the grasses and where they 



and grain are harvested. These losses can resort with their young when the 



can be much reduced by inducing the grain and grass is cut and also when 



quail to nest in safe places at the sides the fields are plowed and made bare, 



of the fields or in small enclosures espe- Very small covers, little briar patches 



cially set aside for the game. with some grass and grain left standing 



Dr. Judd well says, "If bobwhites are all that are needed and the more 



more frequently nested along fence rows evenly such covers are distributed the 



instead of in open mowing land, they more abundant and evenly distributed 



would be observed in many places where the game will be found. In places where 



they are rare. The mowing machine lays quail are preserved for sport or for 



many^ nests bare, and they are either profit many birds can be induced to nest 



despoiled by enemies or deserted by the in safe places by making especially at- 



old birds. At Sandy Spring, Maryland, tractive nesting sites in briars. Nests 



early in July, 1913, four nests with their in standing grain and grass should be 



eggs were cut over in a fifty-acre grass found and some grass and grain can be 



lot. In other hay fields several nests left standing about them. This will be 



were discovered in time to leave grass quite worth while now that the average 



uncut about them, but boys robbed them covey of birds is worth from $30 to $40. 



all. Between such lads and the crows The birds have been selling readily at 



and other enemies bobwhites have a hard $2 and $3 each in large lots. 



time in certain sections." W. Barry, Esq., of Witchingham Hall, 



The reader will see the importance of England, writing about partridge preser 



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