In Santo Domingo. hunt. J his consisted of takin 
met with in the way of meat. 
Walden, Colo., April 22. —Editor Forest and nests of eggs, took the your 
Stream: In 1901 I had occasion to spend nearly enough to eat, and even wrun; 
a year on the island of Santo Domingo. The mother bird if they happened 
part of the island in which I located, called the the nest. 
Dominican Republic, has the reputation of being I did not suppose it possible 
inhabited by white people. There are some of such a variety of birds to rea 
foreign birth who are white, but the natives are so small a spot. It seemed 
of all colors from light yellow to black and have bush had a nest in it somewhere 
kinky hair. there were several nests of diffe 
There is an abundance of small game. Many same branch, 
of the birds I am not familiar with, and I could There are no game laws in 
find no one who was able to enlighten me about the people do not know the 
them. 1 here were two in particular I consider word protection. It was uselej 
good enough to please even the epicure. One and I dare say my companion 
was a long-legged, white-plumed bird with a day that they gave me a royal : 
great crooked bill. It fed on the mud flats, but The carnage was soon over ai 
roosted in the trees. The native name is “Cocoa.” load of ppp* anH hiiVU anrt 
The Rearing of Pheasants. 
Concluded from page 655. 
The incubation of a pheasant egg takes twenty- 
three to twenty-four days. During all of this 
time the setting hens should be exceptionally 
well treated. About five or six o’clock each 
morning they should be very carefully taken off 
the nest and put into the hatching house yard, 
a small inclosure with a 6 by 8 foot wire fence, 
where they are fed and watered. In the corner 
of this yard put some sand or ashes in whieh 
they may bathe. All hens in one compartment 
should be taken off at once by hand. If only 
a few were taken off at a time the rest would 
become impatient, tramp about on their eggs and 
break them. Within a week they will become 
accustomed to all this, and behave accordingly. 
In this, as in anything else, one must be punctual 
The negro in charge saw us and always patient and kind. If you start feed- 
fig killed and dressed in honor your hens at 5 o'clock you must always feed 
00k us around the place, and them at that hour. They will look for you at 
find turtle eggs which we dug that hour, and if you do not show up, there will 
id they made a very palatable be trouble with no one to blame but yourself. 
£ al- hie also flushed a flock The hens are left off their nests for twenty 
is, but I kil ed only one, as to twenty-five minutes, then replaced on their 
he densest thicket almost in- eggs. Each hen must be placed on her own 
nest; you cannot put them back in any old way. 
magine anything more primi- If you do not look after this properly there will 
these people live outside of be more or less failure in hatching. To avoid 
nt was made of poles thatched all mistakes, each setting box is numbered and 
the royal palm. A small pile a corresponding number stamped on a metal 
their bed. ring is put on one leg of each hen. 
rge iron pot in which every- The average temperature of eggs in natural 
so in it our pig found his incubation is from 98 to 103 degrees. If it be 
Rice was placed around him, very hot and dry during incubation, the eggs 
md yams added, then came a should be moistened by sprinkling a little luke- 
last of all our turtle eggs warm water over the whole nest occasionally, 
but this should never be neglected a few days 
^ed in a large gourd, and we before hatching. This not only assists the chicks 
ide of the shell of the cocoa- to break the shell, but they will hatch strong 
and spoons were manufac- and lively, and only a few hours later will ap- 
nent sort, of bark that is torn pear from under their fostermother to look with 
oy the wind, and each person the greatest of interest at their new surround- 
n the iron pot which occu- ings, even attempting to peck on unsteady little 
he floor. Being very hungry feet at an imaginary something. For twenty- 
as much as any picnic dinner four hours at least after hatching, hen and 
chicks must not be disturbed. 
„h up to this time had been Now the time has arrived for the most diffi- 
Idenly and we were treated cult part of the program, the rearing of the 
one seldom sees outside the young poults, but before writing of this I would 
s thought it rained in drops, like to say a few more things about hatching, 
reams, and it continued all In each hatching room must be kept a book in 
to sleep with my dark com- which the dates of each setting and each hatch 
n, so rolled up in a rubber are recorded; also the number of eggs hatched, 
he former. number of bad eggs, number of chicks tramped 
the country was flooded, as to death by the hen, etc. The eggs should also 
wenty feet in fifteen hours, be tested several times before the hatch comes 
for on another occasion a off. and all eces that arc dpad must bp rpmnvoH 
