Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1917 — Pheasants in China. [ARTICLE]

Pheasants in China.

United States laws prohibit the bringing into this country of the skins, feathers or any parts of wild birds, and this regulation has given a great impetus to the raising of pheasants in China. Direct shipments of the feathers to the United States are on the- Increase and a rapid development is expected. One of the farms on which pheasants are raised for their feathers has 200,000 birds, and the total annual Output of the 12 farms engaged in the industry is more than 300,000 birds a year. The birds are raised much as ordinary fowls, hatched in incubators and the chicks raised in brooders, though on the smaller farms hens are netted upon for hatching. The birds are worth about 50 cents each, of which half is represented by theskins and feathers and the rest by the value of the meat for food. -