The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-30
Pheasant Raising.


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Pheasant raising on the small farm
| in the section tributary TO Seattle an'
on the Iogged-of lands of the state i
| an idea which has suggested itself 4
| Mr.. Charles a. Kinnear, a Seattle at
| rorney, as means of largely increas
! ing the incomes of struggling farmer!
| being a lawyer, is fully aware thai
| the construction which the wardens Of
the state put upon the game laws pre-
senting the sale of such birds on this
open market would, if carried out
prevent the introduction of this new
industry in the state. AS lawyer
however. he contends that the game
laws really do not make any provision
against the sale of pheasants, grouse
Or kindred birds raised in captivity. II
this, he declares, he has the support
of the attorney general of the state,
backed by the common law definition
OF game birds and the Interpretation
placed thereon in other states of the
Union.
AS showing the possibilities OF the
industry he points out that the value
of the various plumage pfeasants runs
all the way from So to s2S per pair;
that they are less difficult and no more
expensive to raise than chickens, and
that the market, both for the plumage
and the flesh of the birds, is practically
inexhaustible.
4 first had my attention drawn to
this matter few months ago." stated
Mr.. Kinnear, by receiving from the
East some literature on the subject of
pheasant raising. I don't know how
they got hold of my name, but that IS
not material. l got the literature, read
through some of it, and became in
terested
II find that in Illinois, Indiana, New
York and some of the other Eastern
states the raising of pheasants. quail,
grouse and other birds OF that nature
is becoming an important industry. and
that many fortunes have been made
in it, with the possibility for many
more; and I wondered why it was not
possible for the struggling poultry
breeder in our own state, these small
farmers over at Colby and Manchester
and the western shores of the Sound,
W no are supporting family and send
ing their children to school on the
product of three and a half acres Of
land to annex this new source Of in
come.
II have noted few examples of the
possibilities Of the industry. Wallace
Evans. a 19-year-oId boy, residing in
Chicago, now owns a bout 1909 of these
English and other plumed pheasants,
giving him the largest pleasantly in
the world. It is only a few years since
he started out with a single pair. The
first year he had seventy-f1ve birds, /,
and the increase has been phenomenal.
For his Lady Amherst pheasants he is
getting s2S a pair and can not begin to
supply the demand. Silver pheasants +
are bringing ST pair, Golden SIS to /
20, and Monaghan Cor English) pleas
ants, So to 81 per pair. The latter
5ariety is the most scary in the woods
md the best able to take care of it
elf 1t also lays more eggs than any
,ther.
"Ferd Sudow, a pheasant farmer OF
n. Y, who is the second
argest producer in the world, says he
s two thousand birds and two thou
and eggs behind his orders. He is
cling his birds for $40 a pair and
ffering $40 a hatch for the eggs the
rst season.
These birds are hardy and can be
aised on the logged-off lands of the
tate among the stumps and small
rees. They are much better able to
AXE care of themselves than chickens.
hey cost hardly as much to raise.
While chicken meat sells for Is cents,
heasant brings from 81 TO 81 per
ound. Chicken feathers sell for %
ents pound, while those of pleas
hts bring as much as 80 cents each
Gather for fly fish hook and millinery
urposes. Amherst, Silver and Reeve |
heasants bring as much as SIS each