The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-28
~PARTRIDGES IN C00PS.
An ExPERIMEN IN DOMEsTICATING
mi VIII GAME BIRDS.

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other day. and in the first battle my bird
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s'"o ""' '""' 'n'' e"" vas ',
strain. and one OF my best cocks licEei that.
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,... 600 an, ,,h.n ,h., ,oss,d .h.ir nav, bird
"hs' TOO anu when 'h'N eoss'u ."el heNt NV
into the pit. | tn Few In one OF the hneet game
| cocks | had. After I'd done IL | saw that I'd
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mhhe " miss Oh IT, LOT the'r olr' WINS "o's'
looking thing ] ever saw. IL had yellow Feet,
hr.as, T.. ,.,,h.r. Ind h.on n,ucr.d IN .not,
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its tail feathers pulled out. and Its wings
closely clipped. In spite Of its disguise, some
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thins 'olu ME IN an instant na' Tue ol.u "u'"
m. nounJ across tho nil. Ii, on my game fowl.
Ia Ia naimi. .hoa,.J ,no ,,ni,s hoad az n, ono
ana calmly sheateu the 'o"ls heau Oh a o"o
bite. The Spaniards we're overio!ed. Bring
OH your cocks they were yelling out. and I
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and killed the In Sk a. It stood. Then / or
dcrcd the Standards of my place, That was
n Hoou "hiIe ago' MY he'ehpor' 'ooN "p '"o
story. ind have called me hen hawk ever since.
Sny vh.usvern n ,bodv tries any .hnrp practice
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with me l say! oh' no. 'hat won Ro wiz"
old licn-Hawk Newcomc. ] don't raise game
cocks IN lick Connecticut hen hawks"
,ia,.t.. ~. $1,000 him.o,, Souoouo
having thuH ihtrocuced hlrhscIi' Nc"coihe
told about his new undertaking In partridge
farming, Newcome is nm excellent bird shot.
In good seasons, when he is we'll glazed In the
wonJs IA. usu,iiv M. from nfteen 10 twenty.
tiy" p,rtridr,s n dny' md his income from this
source alone Is an i'm oortant item. Newcomc's
iu tn w,,m aSun IN ,pe rins'Ie,n amy S p SSIs
nrnicct OF raising tncsc birds FOR market at.
sindv NJ I'm, nnr,rid-e for wears. and At present
rnds that m, fncIs are much red uced. par
t ,i,iG h :, ,ay,I Are such n popuiar game bird
BESIDES. in this part of the Stat. the foxes have
multiplied 50 fast II consequence OF their pro.
ih.y hunt and destroy many cartridges, esp4-
Lilly in winter Another thing thai helms 10
OF deep SHOWS and cold In winter. Sewcome
found partridges so scarce last year that he de-
r., SEES chickens.
.."hry' re hunted all The timc.'said he. THE
closed season win them besins on Ney Years
bay in this state. out YOU can easily ind a
match of blood and feathers on the snow in
most any Of the swamp,, which Will show how
.ypmps when a deem snow comes. their IN
y"rrI haunts then are the lower limbs OF the
ciumps of swamp or black alders. They live
almost entirely an tbr nuds of The oldrrs. IN
bet YOU a qunr;er's worth Of cigars that every
n,r,riiye in this r,rt Of Tho country has been
living on alder and birch buds since the last
drcu snow, If vuu sneak up on them ~ such
any hear Won apnTonc lipx over The :oft snew
mini You're almost on top OF them. But It's
~. .h,nnttn, /, unnn 9th Ia. hands In IN kil "A
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pcrscns that VIII do it. however. As long as
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