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comes to destroying both game and other birds' nests the common crow 

 heads the list. 



Cats are an abomination. Government statistics tell us that not two 

 per cent of the eats are ratters and no cat ever lived that would not kill 

 a young pheasant if given an opportunity. The prowling, semi-domesticated 

 cat is the greatest destroyer of game birds among our four-footed animals. 

 In this, perhaps the greatest Chinese pheasant country in the United States, 

 the marauding cat kills more pheasants than all the illegal hunters. He 

 is afield three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. 



CONCLUSION 



Bear in mind that stale and decaying food and unclean drinking water 

 in unclean drinking fountains are just the causes that breed disease germs. 

 Pens in which birds have been kept for long periods of time also invite 

 disease germs. All food not consumed should be removed from the pens 

 each day. Whether you have many or few birds, arrange your pens so 

 that they may have fresh ground to run on occasionally. 



All birds in their natural state frequently indulge in a dust bath. 

 Lice and dust cannot exist together. Pyrethum powder is particularly 

 disastrous to lice. Common road dust works in much the same way. From 

 time to time place a quantity or road dust in a dry portion of the pen. 

 Even the very small birds delight to wallow in this dust. It will be a good 

 plan if you will store away in the fall of the year in a dry place a few 

 barrels of dust to use the next spring before dust is obtainable from the 

 roads. 



DEPUTY GAME WARDENS AND THE CLOSED SEASONS. 



(Editorial from American Field, May 30, 1914.) 

 At this season of the year the deputy game warden has little to do 

 looking after game law violators, but there is plenty for him to do in des- 

 troying the enemies of game, and if he is under a regular monthly or 

 yearly salary he should be required to faithfully put his time in this 

 direction. Hawks, foxes, coons, coyotes, weasels, skunks, crows, the half- 

 starved homeless house cat, and many self-hunting cur dogs destroy more 

 game in a twelvemonth than is taken by sportsmen during the open 

 season, for the enemies of game hunt the year round regardless of open 

 or closed seasons, and some of them hunt three hundred and sixty-five 

 days in the year and get game of some kind, or the eggs of the prairie 

 chicken or quail, almost every day, while the sportsmen of the land — that 

 is, those who are law-abiding — have only a short season when they may 

 pursue game. 



The deputy game warden during the closed seasons on game should 

 be afield in some part of his bailiwick six days out of the seven every 

 week and devote this time arduously in clearing the fields and forests of 

 game destroyers, either by shooting or trapping, or both; and these men 

 should be required to make a report of their work to the district or state 



Pag-e fifteen 



