Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-23

milk. butter milk, or water Occasion
able. When only moderate number of
pheasants are reared, it is unnecessary
to fence the field, but most large breed
ers enclose the rearing ground with one
half inch mesh wire netting four feet
high, banking earth against the bottom
of the fence to prevent the chicks escap-
ing.
The food for the first four days. fed
five times daily consists of equal parts
Of fncly-gratcd hard-boiled eggs, dry
cracker crumbs, and rolled oats The
latter should he well pulvcrized by roll
ing between the hands. TO this mix
ture is added little chick-%ize oyster
shell to fill the gizzard with grinding
| material until the chick learns to pick
up grit. Spread on thin feeding board,
allowing what is eaten in ten nm
, uteS. Remove any not eaten. Feed
the hen soaked whole corn Give no
water to drink An A-shapcd brood
coop without floor, with one SIDE
boarded solid and door at the center,
and the other side boarded onc-half and
remaining half covered with laths ,
inches apart, with one end boarded and
the other near the laths) enclosed with
Sne-half inch mesh wire netting Is best
Make the coop two by four feet and two
feet high. Face the lathed side 10 the
, south, and see that the frame fits tight
, against the coop.
The fifth day, remove the frame, sup
ply water IN a small fountain, or saucer
and inverted quart jar, and commerce
feeding q mash made OF cornmcal, rolled
oats, wheat middhngs and peameal, OF
each 10 pounds; grated hard-aolled eggs,
: 3e- a
meat cooked and ground up finel, 3
pounds; chick-size oyster shell, , pounds
Moisten cruunbly dry with well-soured
milk and feed once the fifth day, twice
the sixth, three times the seventh and
succeeding DAYS Reduce the original
egg and cracker mixture gradually, and
substitute for ii 4 little commercial chick
food of which the following Is a good
formula Cracked peas and cracked
wheat, of each. 10 pounds; cracked corn
and cracked rice, Of each 10 pounds;
| canary, millet and hemp seeds, OF each
) pounds Feed mash four times and
have the last feed at night consist OF the
small grains; after phcasants are eight
davs Old. feed the small grain mixture
also In the morning.
Continue feeding five meals-threC
, mash and two grain daily until the
| chicks are two weeks old Prom ther
| until one month, feed two mash and two
grain feeds daily. From one to two
months. give one mash feed in the morn
ing and three of gram daily After
two months, feed the same as the breed,
ers. The brood coop should be moved
frequently. Wlng-clip the youngster'
when three weeks old Place them in 8
| covered breeding pen when two months
old, or allow them their liberty The
mother hen should remain with the
brood until maturity is reached.
QUAIL AND MALLARDs.
Other game birds which are being sue
, ocssfully propagated are the quail o.
bob-white and the mallard duck The
care and feeding accorded the bob
white is almost the same as that out
lined for the pheasant. Only one pan
of breeders are confined in a breeding
pen. as the male mates with but one
female
When rnaIlard ducks are wing-clppcd
thew arc quite easily confined by wire
fence three feet high. A dam in a stream
TO provide pond and small breeding