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the older countries? The country is 

 big enough to have all kinds of game in 

 abundance, but it is far better to en- 

 courage such abundance than to prevent 

 it by ill advised legislation. 



Laws making a closed season on poul- 

 try would not make the poultry plentiful 

 on any farms. Laws similar to those 

 advocated by the bird society if applied 

 to any animals abundant on the farms 

 as food would exterminate such animals. 



It would be far better to expend public 

 money in encouraging the production 

 of quail and other game on the farms 

 than to expend vast sums in executing 

 laws prohibiting the production and 

 shooting of game a most desirable food. 

 The farmers are perfectly right in pro- 

 hibiting trespassers from shooting their 

 quail. They should not prohibit their 

 neighbors from breeding them for profit 

 or sport. 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



By Our Readers. 



Rearing Ring-necked and Golden 

 Pheasants. 



Mrs. Edgar Tilton. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



I have been raising Chinese ringneck 

 and golden pheasants for the last four 

 or five years. Rhode Island red hens 

 hatch the eggs. I keep them in small 

 runs with waterproof coop attached. For 

 the first week or two I make a soft cus- 

 tard, consisting of a well beaten egg 

 mixed with two tablespoonfuls of sweet 

 milk and baked in the oven. I pour 

 boiling water over a small portion of 

 Spratt's pheasant food and let it steam 

 until it softens. I also have Crissel, a 

 preparation of Spratt's, made from meat, 

 and the first month I give them no water. 

 After that age they are quite hardy and 

 I feed Spratt's food and chick grain, 

 with chopped onions, lettuce, etc. Adult 

 birds are very hardy, small eaters and 

 only require a shed open to the south 

 with wire fence enclosing the run and 

 overhead as well. I have shipped full 

 grown birds to South Dakota and eggs 

 to Missouri, Ohio and California. Or- 

 ders came through my advertising in 

 The Game Breeder, but I have never 

 shipped day old pheasants. The cost of 

 rearing pheasants is very small. 



Texas Game. 



Colonel W. G. Sterett, former State 

 Oyster, Fish and Game Commissioner, 



told members of the Legislative investi- 

 gating committee, the other day, that 

 Texas could have as abundant a supply 

 of game and fish as it had before the 

 Civil War if proper methods were used 

 to propagate them. He advocated plant- 

 ing sunflowers in the Western part of 

 the State to provide . feed for quail, 

 which, he said, thus encouraged, would 

 soon become plentiful, and that oyster 

 production could be greatly increased. 

 He is expected to write out his views on 

 the subject, to be incorporated in the 

 report which will be made by the investi- 

 gating committee. 



Owls Devour Pigs. 



Patriotic Chinaman Loses Ten of 

 Them. 



Chemanius, B. C, April 20. — Sam Yik 

 Kee, Chinese patriot and pig raiser, is 

 distressed and the potential pork produc- 

 tion of Canada has been reduced by ten 

 fine pigs as the result of the depredations 

 of horned owls. 



Sam Yik Kee had ten sturdy little pigs. 

 Then there were nine, and he couldn't 

 account for the shortage. Next day an- 

 other disappeared. Each day thereafter 

 the Yik Kee piggery was shy another 

 suckling animal. 



After the nine had disappeared the 

 Chinaman happened to look upward and 

 saw the carcass of one of his choice pigs 

 hanging from the limbs of a tree. The 



