. Game farming for profit and pleasure. A manual on the wild turkeys, grouse, quail or partridges, wild ducks and the introduced pheasants and gray partridges; with special reference to their food, habits, control of natural enemies and the best methods of preserving and breeding: including, also, an appendix on powder, loads, Game and game-birds. Southern farms the birds easily are kept plentiful. A game keeper once asked me, as with good dogs we strolled over his grounds, where thousands of quail had just been shot, if I did not think he had too many birds. Undoubtedly he had and his d
. Game farming for profit and pleasure. A manual on the wild turkeys, grouse, quail or partridges, wild ducks and the introduced pheasants and gray partridges; with special reference to their food, habits, control of natural enemies and the best methods of preserving and breeding: including, also, an appendix on powder, loads, Game and game-birds. Southern farms the birds easily are kept plentiful. A game keeper once asked me, as with good dogs we strolled over his grounds, where thousands of quail had just been shot, if I did not think he had too many birds. Undoubtedly he had and his decision to "thin them out" before the breeding season was correct. I regretted that the birds lost in the "thinning" process could not be legally marketed for either propagation or as food. Soon, however, I predict there will be many commer- cial game farms in the South and they surely will make a lot of money until the business is overdone. Many experiments have been made with the artificial breed- ing of bob-whites. The birds lay, even in small pens, and although it is generally believed that the males and females have decided preferences in the selection of their mates, pairs have been arbitrarily mated, often, and the hens usually lay fertile eggs, and persist in laying when the eggs are stolen. Mr. Herbert Job secured over seventy eggs from one quail and the Massachusetts Commission secured over a hundred eggs from one. Several times as many eggs as are laid in a wild state can be counted on, and artificial breeding would seem to be inviting to sportsmen and to commercial game farmers. But the experiments thus far have resulted in many losses of young birds by diseases and no one has succeeded in producing large numbers of good healthy quail. The hand-rearing of these birds is not necessary, since quickly and inexpensively they can be made to swarm on protected areas, when breeding wild, and wild bred birds are the best for sport and for food. I am incl
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