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together. Take a tin pan with straight sides at least three inches deep 

 and cover the bottom with shorts, bran or fine dirt, preferably bran, as 

 the shorts have a tendency to pack. Place the bone and meat mixture 

 on the bran and leave where the flies have access to it. In warm weather 

 the fly eggs will hatch in about two days' time and the bone mixture 

 will be partially dried up. The larvae are averse to strong light and 

 will be found to have gone to the bran. They must now have something 

 to feed upon. Remove the mixture and place thin slices of fresh 

 liver on the bran. Turn the bone mixture back on top of the slices of 

 liver. In a few hours the larvae will all leave the bone mixture and 

 be under and feeding upon the liver. After this the bone mixture should 

 be thrown awav. 



Young- Chinese or Ring-Necked Pheasants at State Game Farm 



In a day's time the liver will be eaten to shreds and must be replaced 

 with a fresh supply of thinly sliced liver or fresh meat, and so on each 

 day. until the larvae are practically full grown. This will take nearly 

 a week's time and they may then be fed to the young pheasants. The 

 larvae must be fed on liver or meat so long as they are on hand. As soon 

 as they are matured they will descend into the bran or dirt and change 

 into the pupa state, in which condition they are equally as good for 

 feed as when alive. In feeding the liver or meat, feed only enough to be 

 consumed in twenty-four hours' time. "The assimilating power of the 

 larvae is so great that it can change every particle of meat or liver (except 

 fibre) to larvae, consequently there can be no smell." The object in 

 cutting the liver or meat thin is that it may all be consumed before 

 having time to become tainted. Keep an extra supply of liver in a cool 

 place. A little charcoal, such as is used to feed chickens, sprinkled over 

 and under it, will tend to keep it fresh. 



In order to keep a supply of larvae, it will be necessary to put out new 

 pans of bone every few days, depending on quantity, the number of 



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