Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-01
FOREIGN GAME IN AMERICA.
The Varieties Transferred and the Sue
cess Attending the Efforts.

The Varieties Transferred and the Sue
cess Attending the Efforts.
The naturalization of foreign game birds
and animals in this country has been re-
ceiving considerable attention of late The
first experiment with the Messina quail,
although tried in a great many neighbor-
hoods proved a failure The birds were
placed during the late spring and early
summer seasons, food was strewn near their
loosing place, and the fences were brushed
TO afford them a refuge from hawks and
owls But they disappeared and have never
then tried, but our winters proved too
severe for them. Finally, within the last
two years, at Jobstown, n. j., Pierre Lo-
rillard and some other gentlemen have
been successfully acclimating the English
partridge and its brother from across the
the Channel-the red-leeged partridge.
The birds were secured through the house
of Charles Reiche & Brother. Among
Others who have been interested in intro
ducing English game are: Garrett Roach,
pheasants and partridges, on Long Island /;
Richard Muser, pheasants and partridges,
in New York State; DIR. Al. Watts, of Bos-
ton; Rutherford Stuyvesant, pheasants and
cartridges, on his large preserve at ALA
muchy, Warren county, y. j.; a. Z. Code
froy and E. Flock, hares, rabbits, pleas
ants and cartridges, in. Orange county, n.
Y; 3. ". Pickard, English roe deer and
partridges, in Adirondack region; II. Il.
Sterling, cartridges, in Morris county, n.
j.; Frank Harrison, cartridges and pleas
ants in northern New jersey, and the
sporting club on Fishers Island, Long
Island Sound, cartridges and pheasants.
Within the past two years large ship
ments of prairie chickens have been re-
ceived in the East. Those loosed by Mr..
Lorillard at Jobstown, and others set free
in southern New jersey, have bred fairly
well this season. There is nothing remark
able in this when it is remembered that
these birds were natives Of New jersey,
and over I, hundred wears ago furnished
great sport to such accomplished old-time
sportsmen as Richard Bache, Major Cad
wallader and other prominent Philadel-
phians. Judging from the immense range
of country that at one time or another has
been favored by the prairie chicken, their
introduction into England and Scotland
promises success. The experiment is worth
a trial. But to undertake it intelligently
eggs of the bird should be tried, and the
grouse. sent across the seas ut different sea-
sons of the year.
At present we are receiving both Eng
fish and Golden pheasants, English and
French cartridges, a few hares and rab-
bits. In return we are shipping thousands
of quail and some prairie chickens. The
. f,,,Iixr o+t,ot,al 10
our little bob white" while in Nor
mandy it is also said to receive the patron
age of French sportsmen.
We are informed that the majority Of
the American gentlemen to whom we have
referred have been successful in their I'M
dertaking, Mr. Lorillard especially 50.
This season he has raised half dozen
conveys OF English partridges, to which he
will introduce a party of friends on No
vember LIST. Recently he purchased the
well-known setter Grouse Dale, winner
in several public and private field trials
The dog IS Of American breeding and is
said from the first to have performed adj
mirably on the English birds This is
more than can he said Of number of Sui
folk and Norfolk settlers that were tried q
season or two ago at Raveningham Hall
in Norfolk, on american quail. The
quail, which were 4 selected lot from 4
large netting Of Virginia and Tennessee
birds, we're ioosed on ground that had
been especially prepared for them. They
! seemed healthy, and were remarkably
strong of wing. For one season they were
not molested, in the hope that they would
breed. Unfortunately no such result fol
lowed. 1t was then determined to shoot
of a number Of cock birds which was done
But the birds packed again, and it wa;
only after the crop had once more been re-
duced that the birds mated and hatcheC
ont several small broods.
The difficulty of getting dogs to work
properly on game they are unaccustomec
to is frequently felt by all sportsmen. The
result is generally the condemnation O
the birds rather than the dogs. Hence
imported game has not become popular ii
America or England as yet But itshoulC
be borne in mind that very few Eastern
bred and trained dogs perform satisfac
torilv on their introduction for the frs
time to the prairie chickens in the West
although there have been cases. when the
experiment was made in August, wher,
dogs have been found to point in style
after day or two's good shooting. Thi
| was the gratifying experience of John &
Heckschcr II. II. HOLSTER and George
| Pollock this season while shooting in Min
nesota. Birds were not abundant, bu
those that were found were well worked OF
by the five or six dogs the party took ou
with them.