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[Nov. 12, igio. 
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Dependable in the Jong 
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that she broods is much larger. The chicks that 
have been hatched out in the incubator should 
not be left there long after they are dried. If 
they are left there too long their tendency is to 
run about and not to go back under the hen 
where they belong. After the chicks have been 
put back under the hen, food should be thrown 
before her and she is likely to stand up and call 
the chicks to feed. If they do so, they have 
begun aright, and afterward if proper food is 
given them they will grow rapidly. 
The food difficulty, as has been said, is very 
real. Various manufactured foods are not alto¬ 
gether satisfactory, and the best food for the 
chicks is insects in some form or other. Ants’ 
eggs continue to be the mainstay of the British 
partridge rearer, notwithstanding the fact that 
they are very expensive and very hard to get. 
The first few weeks of the life of the chicks is 
the critical time, and if they can be carried over 
that time they are likely to do well. Six weeks 
later they are taken out into the fields, the young 
being driven into the coop and kept there by a 
partition nailed to all four sides of the coop. 
Here the growing birds soon learn to take care 
of themselves, and before very long the coops 
and the foster mothers are deserted, the par¬ 
tridges begin to gather in coveys and the work 
of rearing this particular group is at an end. 
Another me'thod originating on the continent 
consists in building a large circular or square 
pen six feet high, from which small side inclos¬ 
ures stand off, well provided with artificial cover. 
The amount of ground to be inclosed in the 
main pen should be not less than twenty-five 
or thirty square feet for each pair of birds. 
Birds kept together here may be fed once a day. 
At the approach of spring the birds begin to 
pair and often build nests in the small inside 
pens off the main inclosure. Here the hen is 
very likely to lay her eggs, perhaps not at first 
in the nest, but all about the pen, but they should 
be collected and when she begins to set, all the 
eggs that she has laid may be returned to her. 
After she has hatched out, the young must be 
fed for a short time, but in about a week may 
be allowed to go out into the fields with the 
mother and will not be seen again until the 
shooting season. 
On some estates in England the keepers go 
to the length of removing the eggs as fast- as 
the partridges lay them, and substitute for them 
imitation eggs of porcelain. The mother bird 
sits on these while the real eggs are being hatch¬ 
ed in an incubator or under a hen. When the 
eggs are ready to hatch, they are taken back to 
the partridge’s nest and substituted for the imi¬ 
tation eggs. Thus the eggs of the mother bird 
are protected from all the dangers of the period 
of incubation and the natural mother cares for 
the young and raises them in her awn effective 
way. 
Thousands of European partridges have al¬ 
ready been turned out in the United States in 
situations ranging from Southern New England 
through portions of the great plains to Califor¬ 
nia. In most places they are reported to have 
done very well, but these reports cover only a 
year or two. In most situations where they 
have been set free, and certainly this is true so 
far as portions of New England and Michigan 
are concerned, the birds have been looked after 
with more or less care by neighboring farmers; 
have been fed through the winter and, of course, 
