264 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
the past year or so, And, on top of the great increase in production, 
prices for hand-reared pheasants are rocketing skyward—after gaining 
steadily for two years they are still advancing rapidly. Seven and 
eight dollars per pair is being secured by all dealers at this time; and 
the Fall of the year, when young birds are plentiful, always sees the 
lowest rockbottom prices. Eggs, too, are in great and increasing demand; 
many thousands were marketed for hatching purposes this season. 

WHITE COCHIN BANTAM. 
The ideal pheasant mother—and brood. 
White Cochin Bantam—the ideal pheasant mother—and brood. 
The pheasant industry is well established in Europe; its ascendancy 
in America is not a faddist affair, but a steady, albeit rapid, growth. 
It may be said to be just emerging from the dark almost unknown 
wherein a few breeders only had made it a success, to the front rank 
of legitimate business enterprises with a solid foundation—the peerless 
adaptability of the Chinabird to the game fields; and an assured future 
—the certain increased demand for pheasants with which to restock 
depleted fields and coverts. In fact, it is this very hue and ery for 
birds, birds, birds, to again fill the stubble and hillside for the tired 
sportsman, that has inaugurated this, the first great era of New World 
pheasant history, into existence. America today is undergoing, in her 
game fields, the sure and steady transition from a natural sufficiency 
to an artificially-supplemented sufficiency. 
And, as year by year it becomes more firmly established, recording 
a greater growth, the future of the Chinese Pheasant, in the West at 
least, 1s more than assured; and the great step from natural, wild propa- 
gation to supplemental, artificial propagation is safely taken. The 
years to come are to see heavy game bags, and the sportsmen to come 
are to call we of today sportsmen—nothing less. 
And in this process Old Oregon, where the festive ‘‘Chinkese’’ is now 
found most abundantly of all the game fields of the continent, is to 
endure in pheasant lore and fame. For her climate is perfection to the 
imperial Chinese, her people already familiar with him and his auda- 
cious ways, and her opportunity to perpetuate him ready and waiting. 
Judge Denny’s work shall live. Phasianus Torquatus shall not fol- 
low the passenger pigeon and the dodo. 
