November, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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gestion. Quail use very little water and 
it is best given as water-soaked lettuce and 
cabbage; this also supplies them with green 
stuff. We use a great deal of peeled and 
sliced prickly pear of the spineless variety. 
The birds arc very fond of fruits, grapes, 
apples, and tomatoes. 
Under the above conditions I have been 
able to hold thousands of birds for several 
weeks without the loss of a single bird, 
and have made repeated shipments from 
the Border to the states of Washington 
and New York, and even to Canada, where 
birds were in transit from five to eight 
days, with no losses. The N. Y. Field Trial 
Association, of Middletown, held their 
birds from the first week of January to 
the last week of April without the loss of a 
bird. This is remarkable. 
bor the sake of experiment, in March I 
brought home with me a pair each of Bob 
Whites and the Blue or Scaled Quail, also 
a hybrid, that I kept in a box in my bed¬ 
room window. When they showed signs 
of mating, I paired them. They were 
very tardy in laying eggs, so I liberated 
the pair of Blue and the male Bob White, 
retaining the female Bob White as com¬ 
pany for the hybrid. In due time they 
mated, and I have seven or eight eggs now 
setting under a bantam hen. These birds 
mated so readily, I do not understand why 
we do not meet more hybrids in the south¬ 
west part of Texas, and Mexico. As a 
matter of fact, I have seen cnly three 
hybrids out of nearly 50,000 trapped quail. 
The Bob White and Blue, or Scaled Quail, 
mingle freely too. 
My experiments prove that quail can be 
kept indefinitely if properly cared for. that 
they will mate readily in captivity, also 
mate and produce hybrids, and that water 
is unnecessary. That the hybrid has a se¬ 
ries of call notes is also interesting. He 
calls “Bob White” as clearly as if he were 
pure bred; he has the “Toast On” of the 
Scaled Quail, and a call all his own. He 
gives the alarm note peculiar to the Blue 
Quail whenever you pass near his box. 
A REAL SPORTSMAN’S CALENDAR 
To the average sportsman, the year be¬ 
gins in September. Then, Nature starts to 
paint the forest leaves a brighter tint, the 
nuts are nipped with the first frost, the 
Autumn haze clothes the hills, and—the 
game seasons open. 
A sportsman whose heart responds to the 
September call of the hunt suggested to the 
Remington UMC people that a calendar 
for the tribe of Nimrod should be issued 
with this month of charm leading all the 
rest. So the Remington calendar comes 
to us this year bearing leaves for all the 
months from September, 1917, to Decem¬ 
ber, 1918, inclusive. 
In another respect this calendar is a 
precedent breaker. The full color sketch 
which adorns it is in Lynn Bogue Hunt’s 
best style—in fact good judges say that 
Mr. Hunt never did a better thing. Have 
you had a covey of quail whir-r-r up right 
under your feet? If you have had this 
experience, you will get a much better 
view of the birds and in just as true color 
when you see this splendid calendar. 
Sportsmen the world over will treasure 
this calendar—those who are fortunate 
enough to get one—and when its sixteen 
leaves have gone, will frame it “for keeps.” 
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