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range in the grass or garden where they 

 can procure weed seeds and insects in 

 abundance a mere trace of food before 

 the coops is all the pheasants will require 

 and they never should be given more 

 than they will eat quickly. No stale 



food should be kept before the coops. 



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Ringnecks. 



The prices of ringnecked pheasants 

 rose rapidly as we predicted they 

 would as the breeding season approached. 

 Since it is very evident there will be a 

 big demand for pheasant eggs and that 

 those who advertise in The Game 

 Breeder can sell their eggs for $25 per 

 hundred it is not surprising that owners 

 of pheasants prefer to sell them after 

 they have produced $10 or $15 worth of 

 eggs and many young pheasants besides. 

 This year it seems likely the prices for 

 birds will remain well up throughout the 

 year since clubs and individual shoots 

 are purchasing more than ever before. 



Aviary Pheasants. 



Our suggestion that the game clubs 

 and preserve owners should have a few 

 pens of aviary pheasants seems to have 

 increased the demand for these birds. 

 We have letters from readers saying they 

 cannot procure all the Golden, Silver, 

 Amherst, Reeves and other aviary spe- 

 •cies they wish to purchase. 



Readers should remember that as the 

 breeding season approaches it is a poor 

 time to try and buy any species of birds. 

 The owner of an aviary pheasant which 

 soon will lay a score and more of eggs 

 worth from 50 cents to several dollars 

 each will often not be willing to part with 

 the bird about to lay the golden eggs. A 

 few dollars will not tempt the owner of 

 a bird about to produce $10 or more dol- 

 lars. He prefers always to gather ^the 

 money from the eggs and to sell the hen 

 a little later even if he gets a little less 

 for the bird. 



Increase in Game With Cats Killed. 



Mount Holly, N. J., June 15.— Not in 

 many years have sportsmen found game 

 as plentiful in Burlington County as last 

 season. Hundreds of hunters have re- 

 peatedly bagged their legal limit of ten 



rabbits a day in addition to making good 

 scores on pheasants, quail and squirrels. 



Sportsmen and farmers in this section 

 of the State declare that the warfare 

 waged on vagrant cats during the last 

 two years has been the chief factor in 

 bringing a big increase not only in game 

 animals and birds but also in native song 

 birds. 



Fear that the cats might be spreading 

 germs of the foot and mouth disease in 

 their wanderings from farm to farm 

 caused dairymen upon the recommenda- 

 tion of State health authorities to open 

 the campaign against cats during the 

 1915 epidemic. 



Many granges in south Jersey later ad- 

 vocated the killing of cats to save the 

 insect eating birds that are so important 

 to profitable farming and orcharding. 



It was found that a surprisingly large 

 number of homeless cats made their 

 abode in the woods, preying upon native 

 animals and birds. 



Sportsmen who have made it a rule to 

 kill such cats whenever they find them 

 while hunting have issued an estimate 

 that every such cat killed means approx- 

 imately twenty-five rabbits and fifty birds 

 saved during the following year. 



Bellmore Farmers Plan Hunt for Wild 

 Boars. 



Farmers and citizens of the Bellmore 

 section of Long Island who possess any 

 kind of firearm are awaiting a snow- 

 fall so they can go on a hunt for the six 

 boars that escaped from the Phipps re- 

 serve at Wantagh, and earn a big reward 

 offered for them, dead or alive. 



Some time ago the boars escaped from 

 the estate of John S. Phipps and made 

 off into the woods. They were savage 

 and have been doing much damage. Sev- 

 eral times they have attacked farmers 

 who saw them rooting up cabbages, and 

 thought they were domestic hogs. 



If there is no snowfall within a few 

 days hounds will be used and a hunt 

 started to exterminate the animals. 

 Some of the soldiers from Camp Mills 

 who live in the wild country of Oregon 

 want to join in the hunt, which it is 

 expected will make the meets of the 

 Meadow Brook Hunt Club seem like an 

 exercise gallop. 



