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THE GAME BREEDER 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



Quail Breeding. 



By John C. Phillips. 



I have only bred Bobwbites but next 

 year intend to add California Valley 

 quail as I have rather good reports from 

 them. 



I have used various types of breeding 

 pens from about 3x8 ft. to much larger 

 sizes. I cannot see any great advantage 

 in the larger pens. I have never tried 

 incubators for quail except to start 

 along some of the eggs for a week or 

 two. 



I do not see profits in quail breeding 

 except in selling eggs for I cannot see 

 how one is to> trap up more than 50% 

 or 75% of his young stock. There is 

 very little loss from quail after about 

 one week old, much less than pheasants 

 and besides vermin is much less likely 

 to get them. 



I do not know exactly what numbers 

 of birds I have now, but it is very nearly 

 as follows : 



Wood duck, about 75 ; other fancy 

 ducks, about 50; Various duck hybrids 

 for experimental work, 250; pheasants, 

 all kinds, about 200; no common pheas- 

 ants raised this year; cranes, 25; geese, 

 Canada, 30; geese, others, 10; quail in 

 pens, 50; outside, 200; turkeys 18. 



Massachusetts. 



Pheasants and Quail. 



Editor of Game Breeder: 



In your July issue we read with inter- 

 est the article of Miss Helen Bartlett in 

 regard to pheasants not fighting quail. 

 I know nothing about this matter where 

 the pheasants and quail are at large, nor 

 do I know anything about the Valley or 

 Crested Quail. Our aviaries are 18x22 

 feet each. We know one thing, that you 

 can put a pair of Bobwhite quail in a 

 pen with a pair of Mongolian and Ring- 

 necks, and these little devils will peck the 

 eyes out of any pheasant we have ever 

 had any experience with. They certainly 

 will not do with pheasants, and the 



pheasant certainly has none the best of it 

 with Bobwhite. 



Kentucky. R. A. C. 



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More Pheasants Wanted. 



The Oregon Sportsman says : "Appli- 

 cations have recently been made by other 

 States and by game breeders to the Ore- 

 gon Fish and Game Commission for the 

 purchase of several thousand Chinese 

 pheasants. The prices offered are from 

 four to six dollars a pair. Who can 

 supply the birds ?" Since there is a con- 

 tinued demand for more game birds in 

 Oregon and in almost every other State 

 in the Union, the Fish and Game Com- 

 mission wishes to encourage farmers and 

 others to propagate wild fowl, especially 

 pheasants and quail. 



The best and cheapest way to propa- 

 gate, prairie grouse, ruffed grouse and 

 quail is in large protected fields and 

 woods. The birds will breed in a wild 

 state abundantly, provided keepers be 

 employed to control their natural 

 enemies. Since they will find most of 

 their food and when breeding wild are 

 free from diseases this is the best and 

 cheapest way to produce this food crop. 



New York has a million dollars and 

 more which Oregon can have as soon as 

 some game ranches are ready to deliver 

 the goods. Let The Game Breeder know 

 when you are ready to deliver the goods 

 and we will steer the money your way. 

 There will be no danger of extinction 

 under such conditions as we have sug- 

 gested. 



"As a matter of fact," said "the law- 

 yer for the defendant, trying to be sar- 

 castic, "you were scared half to death 

 and don't know whether it was a motor 

 car or something resembling a motor car 

 that hit you." 



"It resembled one all right," the plain- 

 tiff made answer. "I was forcibly struck 

 by the resemblance." — London Tit-Bits. 



More Game and Fewer Game Laws. 



