File:American game-bird shooting (1910) (14775345413).jpg

Identifier: americangamebird00grin (find matches)
Title: American game-bird shooting
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, Forest and stream publishing company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
seca which has provedfatal to so many of our young game birds as it has toturkeys. The remaining 7 birds did well from Sep-tember to the date of this report, November, 1907.Eleven quail chicks just out of the incubator wereobtained August 19th from the State Farm, werereared in a brooder and to date are alive and well. One of the great difficulties attending these effortsto rear native game birds has been the persistent attacksof vermin, and this Professor Hodge was able to whollyguard against during the summer of 1907. Rats weretroublesome, a skunk killed a hen quail, and a multi-tude of skunks were about. Traps were kept con-stantly set and the results were surprising—for it mustbe remembered that Professor Hodge lives in the largecity of Worcester. These traps caught 17 skunks anda great number of rats, and all these before any dam-age had been done by the animals. Professor Hodgeis carrying on this interesting experimental workpurely as a labor of love, though in 1909 a grant of
Text Appearing After Image:
w M M — u 3 3 a u 9) fc +J u -C * X2 O 13 pq .c M c3 c ta DESTRUCTION AND PROTECTION 545 $500 from the Carnegie Institute paid a portion of theexpenses. The work of the Massachusetts State Farm startedin the year of 1906 with a flock of breeding quailnumbering 47. At the close of the season a partialcount indicated 30, and at the beginning of winter 21were left, while at the opening of the breeding seasonof 1907 there were but 12, or only about 25 per cent, ofthe original number. A number of chicks were hatched in incubators, andthis method seemed to Arthur Merrill, the superin-tendent, more successful than the use of hens. Theloss from dead embryos was less than the usual break-age of eggs, and the chicks were stronger. The in-cubators were run in the same manner as for pheasants.The young quail were fed on dried ants eggs andmaggots, live ants eggs and insects being added whenpracticable, with fruit, seeds and grain as the birdgrew older. Insect food is unquestionably most de-sira

Note About Images