Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-29
auA1Ls. TURKEYS AND pHEasAN1s.
Wide Distribution of the Recently Inn
ported Chinese Ouails.

h1ut the
ported Chinese Quails.
Reference was made a week or so ago TO
the fact that some of the San Francisco
soortsmen had complained that the Game
Commissioners were favoring Sacramento
and vicinity in the matter of the distribu-
ton of the recently purchased Chinese
quails. The absurdity of the complaint is
shown by the following statement of the
places to which the birds were sent:
To T. w. Shanahan. Anderson valley.
100; H. T. Payne. Los Angeles, 100; Colo
mel J. T. Peters, Stockton, 100; Senator J.
Reuter-. for Rancho del Paso, 200; J. H.
Strobridge, Haywards, 80; John Stanton,
Haywards. 80; Senator Reuter-, for his
own ranch 100; Folsom Prison ranch. 100;
y. D. Rideout, Marysville, 100: W. Schrei-
Der, for Novato ranch, 100; r. E. Wilson,
for Alvinza Hayward, 100; Charles Marvin,
Palo Alto, by request of Senator Stanford,
100; James Taylor, Taylorville, Marin
county, so; Frank Maskey, for Stony
Creek, olusa county, 80; Howard Black,
Colusa, so; James Delmas, San Jose, 90;
Adam Herald, Lincoln, Placer county, so;
J. W. Maslin, Glen Ellen, Sonoma county,
100; Hon. w. P. Mathews, Tehama, Te-
hama county, so; Hon. D. A. Ostrom,
Wheatland, Yuba county, 100; George
Fletcher, Grass Valley, 30; L f. Glove,
Woodland so ]. d. Knox, Visalia, 90; G..
W. Weir; Bakersfield, Kern county, 90; r.
c. Sargent, Woodbridge, so; A. J. Mcleod,
Livermore, 80; ]. NJ. Bassford, Vacaville,
so; J. Hughes, Guinda Capay valley, 30.
WILD TURKEYS.
1t is quite possible that in few years
the foothills of the State will resound with
the 'goDble" of the wild turkey The
Commissioners are in correspondence with
parties in States where this magnificent
species of game abound, with a view to
procuring large number to be set free in
the woods. The prospect of again enjoy
ing an old. fashioned turkey hunt before
they die will no doubt send the blood
tingling through the veins of some of our
early. day settlers who have not forgotten
their boyhood days, when they stalked the
lordly gobbler in the old beech and hIck-
ory forests east of the Mississippi. There
is no reason to fear that the turkey would
not do well in this State. 1.
MoNGoLIAN PHEAsANTs.
Some months ago the Commissioners
were considering the advisability of secur.
ing number of Chinese pheasants, such
as are multiplying so rapidly in some por-
llOtiS Vi OTeSOu, Jul laS uOl Detl dDl6 as
yet to Salty themselves that it is a desir-
able bird to have. On this subject F. s..
Matteson, an Oregon farmer, writes to the
Rural Press something of his experience.
He says that to the farmer the bird is q
curse. Mr.. Matteson says:
In the spring-time the males quarrel,
and swear at each other long distances
apart, getting nearer and nearer and event
ually having a pitched battle In the in
terests of piety and morality of the small
fruit and vineyard men, this Monaghan
sho1ld be kept out He will eat grapes
currants, gooseberries, etc., as soon as they
are fairly out of the blossom, and among
the grapevines is just the sort of a place
that suits him. He rises early and gets in
all the time there is. As a provocative of
profanity, he is irresistible and missionary
effort among your viniculturists and berry
men will be useless in few years after you
introduce this pheasant speak from prac-
teal experienced am in the berry ousi
ness myself.
THE law for his protection here is a
dead letter. Everyone who hunts carries
tight game-bag, and it is an unwritten
law, implicitly obeyed, that no one else
tries to see what he has got in it. This
need not be, however, for l should smile 10
see the party who would attempt to enforce
the law. | doubt if your people are very
different to u.s."