Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-03-28
CHICKEN, HARE, PHEASANT.
A Recent Pool i'm Pheasants-
Ancient Belgian Hare
History.

poultry business OF this section
has increased with great rapadity.
1t is still gro wing and will con-
tinue to f or many years to come.
For this business there are many
ideal locations adjacent the city
that are hard to equal, much less
excel.
Each year sees more and more
special attention given the mat
ter and people are beginning to|
make it the chief means of their
livelihood. Let us go into ancient
history a few years-some things
of interest can be raked up no
doubt. Of course there were
chickens before our time; they
laid eggs, certainly, and some
hatched and others didn't. But
at one time the chicken habit
was near to annihilism in this
city by a little creature known as
the Belgian Hare.
Some of our citizens went pell-
nell into the hare-raising indus
try, hut try as they would, they
could not make it pay. One by
one they began quietly to unload
bunnie and slowly get back into
the chicken business. They had
proved to their satisfaction that
hens are better layers than rab-
bits, hence the change.
Of late there has been, in con-
nection with the chicken business
a great demand for China pleas
ants. The demand continues
and prices are good. This is as
legitimate a business as that oi
breeding fancy poultry; it is OF
the same character, aki nto,it il
fact, and the two businesses &C
hand in hand. S. B. Bane is one
of the first of this section to &c
into pheasant raising on any.
thing like a large scale. He wa:
followed by Gene M. Simpson
However, Mr.. Bane has retained
his grip on the poultry business
while Mr.. Simpson at present, a
least, has nothing but pheasants
AS stated by the Gazette re
Gently Mr.. Bane added severa
kinds of pheasants to his pc,
during the past month or so, AM
among Others that he receive
are some Amherst aud Golde
pheasants. All goes well wit
him.
Mr.. Simpson and Johnso
Porter have been in the habit {
bantering each other to send fe
a pen .of Golden pheasants, BIT
both kept out of it until last FIR
day morning. On this particr
lar morning these gentleme
were talking pheasant when f
L. Miller proposed to go in wit
them and send for some of Ii
) Goldens. Whilst they were j
conversation Robt. johnson hal
pened along and he suggeste
that he be let in on the grour
floor. So it was arranged, ar
that very morning an order we
from here to Canada for the bird
A pen is ordered, but il is like
to be late in April before they a
rive, as there are certain arrang
ments to be made with the Unit
States authorities at Washingto
D. c., before these birds can
brought into the country.
This is great! Too manv
these birds cannot be broug
here to suit our citizens. The
pheasants are about as beautii
as any bird in existence. Th
are not hard to handle, as th
are among the tanner varieties
pheasants. For the informati
= of those who may be especia.
interested in pheasants it may
in order to add the following b
of useful information:
Mongolian, English, Reeve
and Versicolors are pheasa
that are in tn1l feather at
months old and will breed
following spring. The male bi
of Golden, Amherst, Silver q
Swinhoe are not in full feat
until they moult the second su
mer, but the Amherst and Golt
will breed at a year old,
Swinhoe and Silver not until
years old.
Golden or Amherst epps ha