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Containing

General Information About Pheasants
With Instructions. How to Raise Them

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"GENE M. SIMPSON
of

Simpson’s Pheasant Farm
Corvallis, Oregon

1908

Press of
Benton County Republican
Corvallis, Oregon

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Copyrighted 1907 by W. T. Shaw

China Pheasant Hen

Foreword.

@ Every person to whom I have sold pheas-
ants or eggs, has written me for information,
either as to the nature of the birds or how to
raise them. It has been my desire to answer
these inquiries in full that my patrons might
have the benefit of whatever knowledge |
might have obtained on the subject, and profit
by my experience in raising pheasants. [hese
inquiries have been so varied that it has been
impracticable to answer them by letter, and
hence | have ventured to prepare this booklet.
There are many ways of raising pheasants, just
as there are many ways of raising chickens.
The methods described in the pages to follow
are not contended to be the only ways, but
they are methods the writer has followed with
success, and therefore recommends as a "good
way." |

@ This booklet is offered with the hope
that after reading it, someone may be encour-
aged to take up the breeding of pheasants
either for pleasure or profit, or that those already
so engaged may be assisted in their work.

"GENE M. SIMPSON

Simpson’s Pheasant Farm
Corvallis, Oregon

Pheasants

There are many varieties of pheasants but for practi-
cal purposes they may be divided into two general classes,
(1) those used as game, and (2) those used exclusively
for show and ornamentation. In the first class there are
three principal varieties: the Chinese, English Ring-neck
and Common or English Black-neck. Other varieties
closely allied to these are the Japanese, Mongolian,
Reeves, Hagenbeck, Prince of Wales, Soemerings; but
the three kinds first named are by far the most prominent
game varieties. Ihe latter named pheasants are reared
for their beautiful plumage, the Japanese and Reeves
being the most common. The Mongolian comes from
the interior of China, and there are perhaps not a dozen
true Mongolian pheasants in America. All of the
pheasants above named are true pheasants of which the
generica acientific name is Phasianus. The Golden,
Amherst and Silver are called pheasants, and, while al- ,
most identical in nature and requiring the same treatment,
yet are not true pheasants. | 3 |
The Chinese Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus)
and the Common or English Black-neck pheasant
(Phasianus Colchicus) are each separate and distinct
varieties of pheasants, while the English Ring-neck is a
hybrid of the two. This latter bird, English Ring-neck,
is the common pheasant of England today and_ by far
the most common variety met with in the United States.
It is frequently confounded with the Chinese. The

English Black-neck pheasant is in general nature and
form the same as the Chinese, differing in this that the
English Black-neck is of a general mahogany red cast
and has no ring around the neck, while the Chinese is
lighter and brighter in color and has a_ silky white ring
or band around the neck. The English Ring-neck re-
tains the mahogany red cast, though not so pronounced
as the English Black-neck, and has the white collar of
the Chinese, hence the name English Ring-neck, indicat-
ing the combination of these two differences.

The old English Black-neck was probably introduced
into England before the Norman Conquest. ‘There is a
record of the birds being served as early as A. D. 1059,
but now they have so interbred with the Chinese that it
is difficult to find a pure specimen. Those on my farm
are from imported stock and _ religiously kept by them-
selves.

The pure Chinese pheasant is the game bird par ex-—
cellence. Taken all in all, it is a serious question wheth-
er or not he has any superior as an all around game bird.
It is utter folly to hunt them without a dog. Their abil-
ity to conceal themselves, even in_ the scantiest cover, 1s
wonderful. Without a dog it is not uncommon to pass
within ten feet of one hidden in_ the grass, without his
rising. When running in cover they move very swiftly
with the body close to the ground and possess the ability
to pass through grass, short or tall. without disturbing the
surface. When overtaken by the dog, they will lie well,
and this fact combined with the further fact that they

are always found in the open, makes pheasant shooting
the cleanest bird shooting in the world.

Possessed of remarkable vitality, they do not succumb
to slight gunshot wounds. Being clean limbed, with
powerful thighs, they are exceptionally fleet on foot, and
if winged only, the pheasant falls running, and here the
dog is put to his severest test. Very few dogs can
track a crippled Chinaman their first season, but an ex-
perienced setter or pointer learns to recognize the
wounded birds and endeavors to be as near him as
possible when he touches the ground.

Besides his gameiness and delicate flesh, he is un-
questionably one of the most ornamental of the game
birds. He is a native of the northern part of China, be-
ing found as far north as the Amour and as. far south as
Shanghai. The question is often asked if the Chinese
pheasant can stand the heat and cold. A reference to
the map of China will answer the question. The pheas-
ant has succeeded over the larger part of Europe even
as far north as Sweden. On this continent it does well
in Canada and Nova Scotia but nowhere has its intro-
duction been attended with such prolific results as in the
Willamette Valley in the state of Oregon. [| do not
know which is to be congratulated most, the Willamette
Valley for having the beautiful and gamey pheasants, or
the pheasants for having been so fortunate as to find sO
delightful a valley. ee : .

It was stated by an eminent authority on pheasants
that in 1893 there. were more Chinese pheasants in
Oregon than in the whole Chinese Empire. Credence

is lent this statement when it is remembered that it is
reliably estimated that in one year 30,000 were killed
in one county in this state alone, and the same year
1200 dozen were shipped to the San Francisco market.
There could be no better testimonial of the adaptability
of the Chinese pheasant as a bird for restocking a state
with game than this last statement, which comes irom no
less an authority than Judge Denny, the man who into-
duced the pheasant into Oregon. For sometime Judge
Denny had been United States Consul General at Shang-
hai and it was from there that he sent the birds to Ore-
gon. The rapidity with which the birds increased in
this state is made more marvelous when it is _remember-
ed that they were not introduced until 1882 and then
only 50 birds were liberated. “They were protected ab-
solutely for seven years. and thereafter an open season
of six weeks was provided, which is now. enlarged to
two months. If the laws were observed the number of
pheasants in Oregon would continue to increase with
each year. The rapidity of their increase is doubtless
due to the large egg production. Itis held by those
most familiar with the birds that under ordinary conditions
the hen will raise two broods, and in favorable seasons
she will care for three broods, in which duties she is
assisted by the cock. Thus, in the field, she will lay
from- 15 to 40 eggsin a season. When in confinement
the hen makes small pretense to brood, but will lay more
eggs.

What is said of the Chinese Pheasant will apply
equally to the English Ring-neck and English Pheasant,

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except that the Chinese phsasant is more wild than the
other pheasants named, and more beautiful and gamey.
In the open the nests are concealed in the tangled grass,
but in confinement the eggs are dropped at random, the
hens seldom attenipting to form a nest. Hens may be
expected to commence laying about the first of April.
‘The Chinese and English will lay from 50 to 60 eggs
in one season, although | have known of a China hen
laying as many as 83 eggs in a season, and a customer
in Nanaimo, B.C., claims over 180 eggs from two
English Ring-neck hens in one year. Golden pheasants
will lay from 25 to 30 eggs in one season. The per
centage of fertility in all pheasant eggs is remarkably
great. It is not at all uncommon for every egg to hatch.
One setting of 12 was obtained after the hen had been
incubating two weeks. The eggs were carried ina
buggy ten ‘miles, placed under a bantam and every egg
hatched. The eggs are a greenish gray in color and
about the size of a common bantam egg.

In the wild state the pheasant seldom roosts in a tree,
and then only in one that is open, so it is in confinement,
while they may stay in the shedded part of their pen in
the daytime, just at dusk they select a place with an open
sky above them in which to pass the night, and this, too,
regardless of the inclemency of the weather. They seem
to be indifferent to snow and rain and after a night out
in the rain, appear none the worse for the drenching.
They commonly roost on the ground with feathers drawn
down tight to the body.

The young pheasants all have the same plumage until

about two months old, that of a grayish brown. Whena
month old it will be noted that the feathers on the back
of the neck near the body on some of the young birds
will show _ slightly lighter in color and with a salmon
colored cast. These are the hens, the corresponding
feathers on the cocks remaining darker and near the
color of the remainder of the plumage. When two
months old, splotches of chestnut red will begin to appear
on the breasts of the cocks. The hens undergo small
changes in | plumage, and while of a general fawn color,
some of the tints shown on her neck are very beautiful.
The cocks continue to change color rapidly until at five
months they will be in full plumage. Their wealth of
color, surpassing the rainbow in variety, gorgeous but
delicately: blended, beggars description. The artist’s
brush has never reproduced it, much less can the pen
portray an idea of its beauty. Graceful in form, with
his splendid robes, the cock Chinese Pheasant is one of
the most beautiful birds in existence. The eye never
tires of admiring his plumage. He is a source of contin-
ual delight to the breeder. |

If you can raise turkeys, you. can raise pheasants.
Like turkeys when matured they are very hardy. The
young of: the pheasant, like young turkeys, are susceptible
to dampness, and should be kept from the’ wet grass.
In fact the similarity between the young pheasant and
young turkey is very marked. Some of their calls, par-
ticularly one given at nightfall, are almost identical, and
in general, treatment adapted to turkeys may safely be
applied to pheasants. When young, the birds are tame

and soon learn to know their keeper. They will become
sufficiently familiar to fly upon the keeper’s shoulder, or
eat out of his hand, but the appearance of a_ stranger
calls for a note of warning to the whole flock. This note
is low but quick, and its effect is instantaneous. During
the laying season it is not advisable to allow strangers to
visit the pens where the pheasants can see them, and
better success will be obtained if only one or two persons
visit the pheasants, and these should be the ones to feed
them. The birds will be better controlled if the same
garments are worn each time, as they instantly detect a
change in dress. They will avoid for a day or more
anything new placed in their pens. Some _ breeders
place fir boughs or branches of other trees in the pens to
offer a hiding place for the pheasants, but it is not at all
necessary. {he pens described further on provide for a
portion being shedded. This applies only to localities
where there is considerable rainfall. In drier sections of
the country, this shed might be supplanted by a small
evergreen tree or two in the pen.

The larger the pens in which your pheasants are kept
the better. [hey are polygamous and four hens and a
cock may be kept in a _ pen 16 feet square. This is a
very convenient size, but in any event the birds should
each have 50 square feet of ground. It is of advantage
to have the pens so arranged that the pheasants may be
changed from one pen to the other occasionally. This
permits the ground to freshen and it is a good plan to
spade up the ground occasionally. A very satisfactory
pen for a trio (two hens and a cock) would be 16 feet

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Section of Breeding Yards

by 32 feet, divided lengthwise with a partition and shed-
ded for 8 feet along one end, the shedded end being so
arranged to ward off as much of the storm as_ possible.
Convenient entrances may be arranged and provision
should be made that the birds may pass from one ose
to another at the keeper’ S pleasure.

The photograph shows a pen 32 feet wide and 48
feet long divided into six pens each 8 ft. by 32 ft. The
posts are 2 by 4 inches, the two bottom boards each
12 inches wide and the top boards 6 inches wide.
The top and sides are of poultry netting. Partitions are
built the same asthe ends. For old birds the wire used
snould be a 2-inch poultry netting, but if alsoto be used
in which to keep the young birds with mother, one-inch
mesh should be used. Don’t stretch the wire too tightly,
otherwise the birds may injure themselves by flying
against it. There is an entrance door in the shedded
with other doors leading through the shedded pait
part of each partition from pen to pen. Have a_ lock
for the entrance door with hook and eye fastening on the ~
inside. [Jon’t leave doors unfastened any longer than
aS celniely necessary to pass through. Pheasants are as
quick as lightning.

Use a good motherly hen to hatch your pheasants,
and for this purpose the Cochin bantam has no superior.
Don’t wse an incubator. Vf a bantam hen is used
set her on from 9 to 12 egz3. Put her in a nest where
she will not be disturbed and treat as if on ordinary eggs
until the 22nd day. For a nest make a box 14 inches
square (bottom) 18 inches high in front, and 14 inches

in back. Across the front, beginning at bottom nail on
a board 3 inches wide; within 2. inches of the top nail
across another board the same width. This leaves a
space 12 by 14 inches. Next take a board to fit this
opening and fasten it to the bottom 3 inch board with a
hinge so it will act as a door and open dowa. Place
fastening at top to hold it closed. When opened down
this door forms an approach for the hen to get back
into the nest after she has been off to feed. It is advis-
able to connect several nests together using one board
for coutinuous top, bottom and back. If nest is to be
left outside, the top should extend over a few inches in
front and back. To make the nest proper, first place
two inches of clean damp dirt in the bottom of the box
and on this arrange some soft straw or grass hay as for
chickens. The number of nests will of course depend
on the number of pheasant hens you have. Place the
nests around the sides (inside) of a house or enclosed
pen provided with a watering cup. Each day ata
regular hour, place feed in the house or pen, open the
doors to the nests, :and_ see that the hens all come off.
After they have eaten and had a drink, which will
occupy about twenty minutes time, they will return to
the nests when the doors should be shut and left for
another day. If possible provide a dust bath for the
hens in addition to their food and water. |
The eggs keep as well as chicken eggs and it is a
good plan to set several hens at once if you have the
eggs. Always keep a record of the dates when hens
are set that you may know when to expect the young

birds. Pheasants will hatch about the 23rd day, and
all the eggs under each hen hatch at the same time.
The disposition is to leave the nest immediately, hence
the added advantage of having the hen locked up. Do
not remove the young pheasants from the nest until 24
hours old. Remaining under the hen gives them strength.
At the end of this period remove hen and pheasants to
a box about 18 inches by 3 feet in size and place where
it can have the benefit of the sun. Provide a shade for
part of the box. Sprinkle the bottom thickly with sand,
give water in small fountam and cover box with a piece
of wire netting. The object of this box is to keep the
young pheasants near the foster mother until they learn
her call, the small size of the box keeping them always
near her. Have ready a runway made 1Ix2x5 feet in
size, the ends made of boards 1x2 feet strengthened by
cleats nailed across the grain, these ends connected by
four strips 1x3. imches and the whole covered with a
strip of 5-foot 2-inch mesh poultry netting stretched tight
(see photograph). It may here be remarked that for
fastening poultry netting, | have found No. 11 double
pointed tacks well adapted. Make a box 2 feet square
with top hinged in back as shown in photograph and
opening in front to correspond with opening cut in one
end of :uaway for a coop. The front of this coop
should be slightly higher than runway. Place the two
together as seen in photograph. Place this coop and
runway in large pen so as to receive protection of shed
but so that runway may have benefit of morning sun.
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move her and pheasants to this coop. Make this change
at twilight and see that all the pheasants go under the
hen before leaving them. A wire screen may be slipped
between the coop and runway as a precaution against
the pheasants getting out the first night. It should be
removed early in the morning. The change if made in
the day greatly alarms the small birds. The wire run-
way prevents the hen wandering about and if a bantam
she will be continually hovering. The small pheasants
can easily pass through the 2-inch meshes, besides the
pheasants can be fed food different from the hen. In
about two months you will notice that the pheasants are
no longer roosting under the hen, but are huddling to-
gether in corner of pen outside. It is now time to re-
move the hen as they will never return to her.

Place a drinking fountain outside of runway but so
hen may reach it.. Drinking fountains as shown in the
illustration s:h o ul d
be used. Always

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weather see that it is changed daily. Cleanliness is es-
sential. Your hens should not have lice, but if you have
cause to fear them, when the young pheasants are taken
off the nest, grease the top and under part of each one’s
head with vaseline or olive oil. The latter may conve-
niently be applied with a sewing machine oiler. When
the hen is placed in the nest, dust her feathers thorough-
ly with buhach powders and give her another dusting a

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few days before time to hatch. If eggs get foul, wash
them with tepid water while hen is eating. E/arly in the
season give each hen 10 or 12 birds; later the number
may be increased to twenty. As with chickens the im-
portant item is the feed. When the birds have been re-
moved from the nest to box, give them a little chopped
lettuce or tender cabbage or rape, preferably the lettuce,
and a small amount of this ration should be given them
daily. Also feed hard boiled egg, shell and all, chop-
ped up and crumbled with rolledoats or corn meal.
Feed the mother'hen wheat, but feed the little pheas-
ants four times a day with the egg mixture. Feed but
a small amount each time and feed it to them fresh.
Stale egg mixture or too much egg, means fowl trouble.
After a week they may be fed only three times a day.
The egg mixture may be alternated with fine ground
lean meat rubbed with shorts until crumbly. Too much
meat will cause leg weakness. Keep Diamond Chick
food before them all the time. They may also be given
a small amount of boiled rice and curd occasionally.
After birds are one moath old, keep cracked soft wheat
or chick food before them allthe time and until three
months old feed them sparingly fresh hamburger steak
crumbled with shorts once a day. A\fter this give whole
soft wheat and gradually reduce meat diet until when

five months old the meat may be omitted, however it 1s
advisable to give your pheasants an occasional feed of
meat and particularly during the laying season. Give
the growing pheasants all the green food they will eat:
In addition to the greens mentioned above they are ond
of mangels and carrots.

By soft wheat is meant the soft varieties of wheat as
distinguished from the hard varieties. While the pheas-
ant is omnivirous, still insects are especially relished. In
the wild state they seem to feed upon the seeds most
available. In China they frequent the millet fields, and
an examination of the crops of a large number of birds
killed in Oregon, disclosed a large variety of grains and
seeds with a large percentage of bugs.

For feeding young pheasants, the most successful re-
sults have been obtained with the larvae of the common
blue fly (maggots). When this food is used nothing else
need be fed, except greens occasionally, until the birds’
are a_ month old, however the chick food or cracked
wheat should be kept before them that they may learn
to eat it and be prepared to adapt themselves to the
whole wheat diet when the larvae food has been discon-
tinued, which should be done gradually. ae

The objection to the larvae food is the offensive odor
ordinarily associated with it. This may be overcome
by raising the larvee scientifically. Contrary to this com-
monly accepted idea, the larvee of the fly prefers fresh to
decaying meat. Prof. McGillivary of Qu2ens Uaiversity,
Toronto, who has successfully raised English Ring-neck
pheasants, says: "Our investigation and study of ento-
mology prove to us that maggots separated from their
usual surroundings, are just as clean and odorless as
young chickens. Flies do not lay their eggs on tainted
meat when fresh meat can be found, and maggots are
clean feeders from choice and thrive best on fresh meat."

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China Ring-neck Pheasants |

tle or no odor. Secure a quantity of green bone and
meat trimmings coarsely ground together. Take a tin
pan with straight sides at least three inches deep and
cover bottom with shorts or fine dirt. On this place the
bone and meat mixture and leave where the flies may
have access to same. In warm weather the fly eggs
will hatch in about two days time and the bone mixture
will be partially dried up. The larve are adverse to
strong light and will be found to have gone to the dit
or shorts. [hey must now have something to feed up-
on.. Remove the bone mixture and place thin slices of
fresh liver on the shorts or dirt. Turn the bone mixture
back on top of the slices of liver. In a few hours the
larvee will all leave the bone mixture and be under and
feeding upon the liver. After this the bone mixture
should be thrown away. | Ca

In a day’s time the liver will be eaten to shreds and
must be replaced with a fresh supply of thinly sliced
liver or fresh meat, and so on each day until the larvz
are practically full grown. This will take practically a
week’s time and they may then be fed to the young
pheasants. The larvee must be fed on liver or meat as
long as they are on hand. Ass soon as they are matured
they will decend into the shorts or dirt and change into
the pupa state, in which condition they are equally as
good for feed as when alive. In feeding the liver or
meat, feed only enough that they will consume it in 24
hours time. "The assimilating power of the larve is so
great that it can change every particle of meat or liver
(except fibre) to larvae, consequently there can be no

smell." The object in cutting the liver or meat thin is
that it may all be cousumed before having time to be-
come tainted. Keep extra supply of liver in cool place
and a little charcoal such as is used to feed chickens,
sprinkled over and under it will tend to keep it fresh.

In order to keep a supply of larva, it will be neces-
sary toput out new pans of bone every few days depend-
ing on quantity, the number of pheasants you have and the
state of weather. The warmer the weather the more
rapid the development of the larvae. If you contem-
plate using larve, you should start with the bone mixture
a week prior to date of first hatching.

The advantage of this food is that you need _ not
hesitate to feed young birds all they will eat. They are
wild for it and will frequently crowd _ their crops and
throats to overflowing with no apparent bad results.
They thrive better on this food than on anything else.
Other methods may be employed to produce the larvae
but it should be remembered that but 15 days time
elapse from the laying of the fly egg until it has. success-
fully become larvae, entered the pupa state, and turned
into a fly again, that the larvee are clean feeders and
that they must have a medium (shorts, or clean fine dirt,
perferably) in which to bury themselves. When about
ten days old they pass into the pupa state in which form
they may be kept if stored at a low temperature (40
; degree F, ) The low temperature stops the development.

Ever yone is familiar with the history of the butterfly,
how an ugly worm dries up in the fall of the year and
in springtime breaks open to release a beautiful butterfly.

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This dried worm is the pupa, and just as the butterffy’s
egg dries up and later produces a perfect insect, so the
larvee of the common fly when grown dries up and later
produces a fly again, only the change to the fly Is ac-
complished in a few days instead of months.

Should the pan of shorts or dirt become heated it
means that the larvze are too crowded and will leave if
possible. A part should be removed to another pan or
given a larger proportion of shorts or dirt. With facts
above, your own ingenuity and some experience will
suggest convenient methods for producing larvee.

The true pheasants (Phasianws) will breed the
following spring after hatchings, while the male birds of
the Golden, Amherst, Silver and Swinhoe are not in full
plumage until the second year. ‘The first two will breed
at a year old but the latter two not until two years old.
Silver and Swinhoes should be mated in pairs. For
stocking purposes, pheasants should be liberated in pairs.

Birds are shipped by express in slatted crates covered -
with burlap and take single merchandise rate. From
one to four may be shipped in one crate the whole
weighing about 25 to 26 pounds, depending on number
of birds. I provide the crate with food, a cup for water
and affix permit for shipping with printed instructions to
express agent. Eggs are shipped in improved crates.

(See illustration). My advise to persons desiring to en-
gage in pheasant breeding is to buy a trio, but in any
event try a setting of eggs even if you let the pheasants
go when they are large enough to care for themselves.
The pleasure derived will repay you for all expense and
trouble.

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By inquiring of your local express agent you can as-
certain the cost of transportation on either live birds or
eggs, but bear in mind that the birds go as single _mer-
chandise, slatted crates. | guarantee that the birds will
be delivered to the Express Company in Corvallis in first
class order. Cut of one shipment of 100 birds to the
state of Kansas from Corvallis, Oregon, only one bird
died.

I am asked lo reccmmend a variely to the tyro.
This is difficult to do. So far as the raising is concern-
ed there is little difference. The question of beauty js
one of opinion. Personally, I regard the Golden and
Chinese the most beautiful, but the Golden as already
stated, does not put on his fine plumage until the second
year. |

It is well to clip the wings of the birds when about
two or three weeks old. ‘To do this, use care, extend
the wing fully and cut each pinion feather from middle
of wing outward, cutting between shaft and quill. Do
not cut the remaining feathers or you will leave the lungs
unprotected. The pinion or flight feathers are the coarse
feathers near the tip of the wing. I also advise _pinion-

ing pheasants where they are kept in aviaries. This
does not injure their looks, as the absence of the flight
feathers is unnoticed, and the birdscannot injure them-
selves by striking against wire, and also has the added
abvantage of permitting birds to be kept in yards enclos-
ed by a six or eight foot fence only, eliminating the cost
of wire covering overhead. The operation requires no
skill and consists in clipping off the wing at the first joint
with a sharp pair of scissors. It may be performed at
all ages, but the best time is when they are about two
weeks old.

To catch pheasants use a net similar in shape toa
fisherman’s landing net but made of material similar to
domestic, and provided with a four foot handle. In
handling the birds don’t hold by leg or wing. The
wing bone particularly, is very fragile and a broken wing
or leg will result if you are careless in this regard.

In the introduction of the pheasant Oregon is the pio-.
neer. The success that has followed the venture has
encouraged her neighbors on the North and East,
Washington and Idaho, to follow her example. Last
year 1000 pheasants were shipped from Oregon. to the
state of Washington, and more are ordered for the com-
ing season. Kansas, Illinois, Colorado and Minnesota
are working toward restocking with pheasants, and Cal-
ifornia is seriously considering the matter.

The pheasant industry has come to stay, and the
writer ventures the assertion that before many years the
pheasant will be known in every state in the Union.

Why not be one of the pioneers yourself, and in ad-
dition to the pleasure and profit you will derive, have
the satisfaction of being responsible for their introduction
into your own state.

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