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of 1915 and kept it until the past Sum- 

 mer, when I penned it with a two-year- 

 old male. The hen laid and as fast as 

 she laid I gathered the eggs, never leav- 

 ing a single egg in the pen if I saw it. 

 Sometimes the hen laid each succeeding 

 day and sometimes each alternate day. 

 She laid during the season twenty-two 

 eggs and each of the twenty-two eggs 

 was fertile and each of them was 

 hatched at our place. The author that 

 I criticise undoubtedly has been misled 

 by the statements of others. It is well 

 to add that all of the peafowl eggs 

 hatched on our place were hatched 

 under turkeys or ordinary hens, and we 

 now have two peaks, one male and one 

 female, about four months old, that are 

 still being mothered constantly by a 

 Rhode Island red hen that hatched them. 

 The fact is that peacocks are reared 

 exactly as turkeys are and are no more 

 difficult and are no more easy to rear 

 than turkeys. 



Jno. W. Talbot. 



Notes by Peter P. Carney. 



The Du Pont Powder Co. 



Buckwood Farm, on the Jersey side 

 of the Delaware Water Gap, one of 

 the finest game preserves in the East- 

 ern States, has been given to the State 

 of New Jersey by C. C. Worthington. 

 The Farm swarms with deer, rabbits, 

 quail, wild duck, woodcock and other 

 birds. It comprises several thousand 

 acres. 



Bears have become so plentiful in the 

 vicinity of Williamsport, Pa., that citi- 

 zens several times lately have had to 

 form posses to drive them into the moun- 

 tains. 



Wisconsin has become such a favorite 

 place for wild game hunters that there 

 is danger of all wild life being destroyed 

 unless some changes in the laws are 

 made, and the Wisconsin Game Com- 

 mission is planning the changes now. 



How absurd it is to think that wild 

 turkeys reared and donated by members 

 of a Society can not be eaten in New 

 York. 



More Game and Fewer Game Laws. 



Photograph made atSunapee Lake where Dean Hallock, 

 General Merntt and Harry Radford met a short time 

 before Radford went to the Arciics where he was killed 

 by Eskimos. 



Quail a Nuisance. 



Charles Hallock, the dean of Ameri- 

 can sportsmen, writing to The Game 

 Breeder, says that he has just had an 

 interesting ramble in the District of 

 Columbia with another young man 

 (aged 81, just one year younger than 

 Hallock is). He says: 



"My companion, Sea Captain T. B. 

 Smith, who was born in Ceylon, and 

 .1 just returned from an interesting 

 tour of observation through the Argyle 

 property, District of Columbia, which 

 was noted as an extensive farm previous 

 to our Civil War. As we walked along 

 the country road within fifteen yards of 

 a residence adjacent to the Argyle, we 

 flushed a covey of nine quail or par- 

 tridges out of a bunch of crab grass 

 beside the road. An employe told us it 

 was against the law to shoot the birds 

 in this District and, he added, 'the fields 

 adjacent to the woods are full of them. 

 They are becoming a nuisance.' Under 

 the circumstances it would seem that a 

 license might be isued to worthy sports- 

 men. 



"During our ramble we had a brief 

 chat with a colored woman of about 70 

 years or so, who said she was born in 

 slave times 'befo de wah, close by.' " 



It would seem that sea faring and 

 field sports are conducive to a happy 

 old age if those who are eighty may be 

 considered old. 



