THE GAME BREEDER 



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NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



A New Foster Mother. 



Mr. Bullock, manager of the Scarboro 

 Beach Game Farm, Scarboro, Maine, 

 writes : 



This year I am going to cross all my 

 Silky cocks with R. I. Red hens. I did 

 a few last year and they turned out so 

 good that I am going to turn my whole 

 flock of hens into crosses except a few. 

 I have some cross cocks, last year's, for 

 $1.00 each. 



In making this cross I think it is a 

 problem solved for they make wonderful 

 mothers for pheasants, being a little 

 larger than the bantam and, therefore, 

 will take more eggs ; also they are not 

 heavy and will not kill the young birds 

 in the nest as the common hen will. 



I think the members of our society 

 will find this cross interesting. 



In regards to the mallard eggs I think 

 ours is a very good line of birds. I 

 am going to try and hatch somewhere 

 near one thousand and let them go in 

 our large pond after they have gotten 

 •old enough to look out for themselves. 



Could you tell me of any place in the 

 south where I could make arrangements 

 to buy some trapped mallards? I would 

 like to get about fifty clear wild birds 

 next fall. 



You will be interested to know that 

 my black duck have started to lay a lit- 

 tle. Yesterday I found two nests, one 

 with ten eggs and one with two, and also 

 noted quite a few places where they had 

 started nests. 



Perhaps I can be able to ship you 

 some in about two weeks. 



Why We Have No Quail. 



Mr. Bridges, a Maryland wild turkey 

 breeder, writes : 



I have no quail for sale at all. The 

 only thing I am raising now is the wild 

 -turkey. It seems impossible to get any 

 •of the American quail as the law does 

 ;not seem to allow it. 



Good Work. 



Rodney E. Marshall, city editor of the 

 Portland Daily Press, Portland, Maine, 

 says: 



"For the first time in the history of 

 the city of Portland, Me., countless thou- 

 sands of wild ducks were driven into 

 Back Bay, an inlet from Portland Har- 

 bor and bordering the residential section 

 of the city, by the extreme cold weather. 

 At one time game wardens estimated 50,- 

 000 black ducks were to be found on 

 the ice and so acute did their sufferings 

 become for want of food that State 

 Game Warden George Cushman was au- 

 thorized by the state fish and game de- 

 partment to feed the birds. 



Food was distributed as ordered and 

 the birds fought hungrily to pick up the 

 morsels thrown to them by the state of- 

 ficers. R. L. Bullock, manager of the 

 Scarboro, Me., wild game farm, snared 

 hundreds in nets and took them to his 

 farm for breeding purposes." — Reming- 

 ton Live News Notes. 



Eagles Attack Aviator. 



Paris, Jan. 5 (by mail). — Captain Mor- 

 tureux, a pilot in the French aviation 

 service, has just arrived here on fur- 

 lough from Saloniki, where he was at- 

 tached to the Army of the Orient, bring- 

 ing with him two stuffed eagles which 

 he shot down with his machine gun when 

 they attacked him during a flight he made 

 over the Bulgarian lines in Macedonia. 



This is the first authentic case on rec- 

 ord in the annals of European aviation 

 when a bird has attacked an aeroplane. 



The aerial battle between Captain 

 Mortureux and the two giant birds was 

 witnessed by British and French troops 

 in the advanced trenches over which the 

 contest was fought. The bodies of the 

 eagles were later picked up by soldiers. 

 One eagle is a male and the other — the 

 larger one— a female. They measure 

 nearly ten feet from wing tip to wing tip 



