THE GAME BREEDER 87 



More About Ant Eggs. Expert Advice. 



Rev. H. A. Macpherson, an English The Game Conservation Society is 



authority on game birds, writing about prepared to offer expert advice about 



young partridges, says: "When the the purchase of lands suitable for 



little fellows emerge into the world, they breeding the various species of game, 



soon learn to take care of themselves, it is most important to select land which 



but the pupae of ants are requisites for {g suitable in order to get the best re- 



their successful rearing. suits for sport and for profit. 



"Two very different kinds of ant hills The society also has experts who will 

 supply the eggs or ant-pupae to the plan the preparation of lands and the 

 young of game birds, and of partridges planting of suitable foods for upland 

 in particular. First, there are the com- game birds which are to be bred wild 

 mon emmet heaps, or ant hills, which in the fields and it will also send ex- 

 are scattered all over the land ; go where perts to advise about the preparation of 

 you will, you find them. These the duck ponds and marshes for wild ducks, 

 birds scratch and break up picking out ^he Society also is prepared to offer 

 the eggs as they fall from the light soil ^^e services of the best expert on fish 

 ■of the heaps; the partridges work them breeding who will visit the premises and 

 easily. But the ant eggs proper— I am gi^^ ^^vice about the erection of fish 

 writing now from the game-preserving hatcheries and the planting of fish foods 

 point of view— come from the nests or ^^^^^^16 for trout, bass and other game 

 heaps of the great wood ants, either the fishes 



black or the red ants. These are mounds t\t ' i . , ,• , . 

 •of fir needles, being, in many instances. Members contemplating purchasing 

 as large at the bottom in circumference ^^^^^^^ g^l^.^^ ^^^ breeding or shoot- 

 as a wagon wheel, and from two to three '^^ ^^^ f'^'J are invited to write to 

 feet in height; even larger where they *? secretary for full information about 



ij T^i r J • this new branch of our activities, 

 are very old ones. They are found m 



fir woods on the warm, sunny slopes — 



under the trees, as a rule, pretty close to ^ New Catalogue 



the stems of the trees. The partridges 



and their chicks do not visit these heaps. Chiles & Co., Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, 



for they would get bitten to death by the ^ave issued an interesting supplement 



ferocious creatures. The keepers and ^o their catalogue which contains much 



their lads procure the eggs of these, and interesting and instructive matter about 



a nice job it is. A wood-pick, a sack and the breeding of game birds. 



a shovel are the implements required for • 



the work. Round the men's gaiters or -ru ^- u td • ^ t j i- 



. ^ 4.U 1. i.- Ui.1 I, 1 ihe limber Point t^arm advertises 



trousers leather straps are tightly buck- 1 1 i j i tsi i j i u- u -n 



1 J , . .r Ml .1 . . black ducks. Black ducks which will 



led, to prevent, if possible, the great ants i i n ^.t, t, 



r r: • \.y. ^ -11 i 1. breed on preserves are well worth hav- 



from fixing on them, as they will try to . r^^^^ ^^^ especially desirable for 



do, like bulldogs when the heaps are ■.■r*' / , ^^ ■' , 



■1 • J T-1 . r i-t- t. -1- New England game farms and preserves, 



harried, ihe top of the heap is shov- , ,,f •?, ,. . -i i u- j 



„ J rr 1 . ^ ^, J ^ ^. where thev will attract many wild birds, 



elled off, laying open the domestic ar- . • j v, • j • ui j u 



. r^u ^ . t. jt, A mixed bag is desirable and we have 



rangements of the ant heap, and show- r. j • 5 j 4. u j ui i 



^ , ^, , J J r • , often advised our readers to breed black 



ing also the alarmed and ferocious ants ^^^j^^ ^^^ other wild fowl besides 



trying to carry off their large eggs to a ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ abundant mallards, 

 place of safety ; but it is all m vain. 



Eggs and all they go into the sack. In * 



spite of every precaution, the ant egg Qame breeders should be permitted 



getters do get bitten severely."— Pall to trap stock birds on their farms for 



Mall Magazine. propagation. There is a scarcity of 



"^ quail, grouse and other indigenous game 



More Game and Fewer Game Laws, birds for propagation purposes.. 



