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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Ring-necked pheasants, being easily oV)tained, hardy, and less liable to disease than other wild fowl, are usually chosen by the beginner in wild game farming. This flock is on the farm of .John Hevwood, Gardner, Massachusetts hardy, but the iiuai
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The California quail (note that tlie b:ood is under the care of a bantam hen) is a beautiful bird with a glossy black plume- like crest. It takes kindly to civilization, and the young are de- lightful to handle. The brood liere sliown was raised at the Experiment Station, Amston, Connecticut worked out. Young (piails arc delight- ful to handle, and the actual rearing of them on a small scale is considered by some to be more easily accomplished than the rearing of even pheasants, as they stay with the hen and run with her for shelter to the coop during show- ers, whereas the young pheasants often merely squat in the grass, and, further, -tay better in one locality when grown ujx The stock in confinement, however, cannot l)e crowded as much as pheasants with- out danger from epidemic iliseases. Also finer wire, which at present is very costly, is required for (juail ))cns. To rai.<c ))heasants. we may l)egin in either of two ways. We may buy eggs from a game farm and set tlicni under hens, or we may l)uy. in late fall or early winter, adult l)reed- iiig stock,usually one male to four or five females. If the second method is fol- lowed, the pheasants, with wings clipped, should be kept in a wire enclosure,

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