Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — Quails for Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Quails for Indiana.

Eight thousand Hungarian quails, in pairs, have just been released on the various game preserves of the state by the game and fish commission and placed in the hands of proper caretakers for propogatiom The general assembly of-1909 enacted a law protecting the birds from hunters at all times for a period of six years, giving the quails yet five years of immunity from the hunter. The distribution of the Hungarian quails began in 1907,immediately after the enactment of a law by the general assembly providing that the state fish and game commissioner should spend not less than one-third of the amount, derived from the sale of hunters’ licenses for re-stocking the state with game. Several thousand of the birds were released in 1907, 1908 and 1909, which have been multiplying rapidly, according to reports from the commission. They have been surviving the changeable Indiana weather much better than the native birds. E. E. Earle, chief deputy, expects, he said, to- see the state literally alive with Hungarian quails when the hunters are permitted to shoot them. The Hungarian quail is about 50 per cent larger than the native bird, and when served on the table its flesh is delicious. The birds just released were purchased from breeders inHungary through Mackensen & Wenz, American agents, who have a preserve in Pennsylvania, which is used as a great distributing point. Those just released are of last year’s broods.