Game Farming For Profit And Pleasure

CONTENTS PAGE 3 FOREWORD .................................................... RESTOUTION ............................................... 5-9 Former abundance of game Game laws have not saved it Field sports promote health Their restoration through game breeding of great economic importance Prejudice against breeders founded on ignorance Wild bred better than hand reared birds Beat keepers and hand rearing keepers. GAME ENEMIES. ................................................ 10-14 Control vermin and good shooting results Foxes Coyotes Wolves Mountain lions Lynxes Minh Weasels Snakes Hawks Owls Turtles Crows Skunks Traps Pole traps Poison Cats Dogs Rats Destruction of covers. THE ILD TURKEY. ............................. ,. ............. 15-18 Propagation important because of diseases among domestic turkeys Four species Habitat Commercial breeding Hand rearing Enemies, Foods Market prices. AMERICAN QUAILS OR PARTRIDGES. .............................. 19-84 Five genera and thirteen species Comparison with Eurapean partridges Terms quail and partridge Breeding habits Good shooting at quailclubs with smaII dues California mountain quail Valley quail Gambels quail Scaled partridge and chestnut-bellied scaled partridge Mearns quail. BOB-WHITE. .................................................... f 5-27 Range Preserves Artificial breeding Hand tearing unnecessary Food habits. THE GROUSE OF THE OPEN COUNTRY.. .................. . ..... 28-33 Extinct in entire states Will vanish from cultivated regions until it pays to preserve them Attention from sportsmen needed At present practically no shooting The sharp-tailed grouse The sage cock The heath-hen.