. The Game breeder . d and alsoa little bone meal is very good. The mashshould not be too thick or too thin, sothat when it is put in a low pan a littleof the water will be left on top. Ifthe growing ducks are fed this way youneed not give them any water until J heyare two or three weeks old. Never givecold water; always make it warm andgive the first water just at night or ona rainy day. Put a rock or somethingin the pan to keep the yoiing birds fromgetting their tails wet, for once theirtails iget wet and they get on theirbacks, if help is not there, it is all upwth them. Cold water and hot
. The Game breeder . d and alsoa little bone meal is very good. The mashshould not be too thick or too thin, sothat when it is put in a low pan a littleof the water will be left on top. Ifthe growing ducks are fed this way youneed not give them any water until J heyare two or three weeks old. Never givecold water; always make it warm andgive the first water just at night or ona rainy day. Put a rock or somethingin the pan to keep the yoiing birds fromgetting their tails wet, for once theirtails iget wet and they get on theirbacks, if help is not there, it is all upwth them. Cold water and hot sun aresure death to little mallards. The best pen is made out of boards ongood green grass. For twenty littleducks a peri 10x8 feet is recommended;and when the little fellows get the grassworn down move it to a clean place. Always keep a small pile of sand orgravel in the pen and feed on it. I have always had the best of luck inraising young ducks this way and I havereared them by the thousands. THE GAME BREEDER 107. Mexican Q jail-Imported by W. J. Mackensen and mounted by Taxidermist Fred Sauter. QUAIL AND PARTRIDGE BREEDING FOR SPORT AND FOR PROFIT. By Dwight W. Huntington. The system on which we work in the nesting season is to assist the methods of nature inevery way we can, but never to supplant them by methods of our own, recognizing that thepartridge is a better parent than any substitute we can hope to provide, and that birds rearedunder natural conditions in a wild state make the best and healthiest stock.—Aymer Maxwell. Our quails or partridges, like the graypartridges of Europe, thrive best in ag-ricultural regions. The range of the bob-white rapidly was extended with the in-crease of cultivated areas in the West,and the birds increased in numbers fora time when bigger game was plenti-ful and there was comparatively littlequail shooting. When the newly-madefarms were inclosed with rail fences withtheir angles full of wild foods and safecovers (weeds, grasses, bri
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