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identifier/filename
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371-00054
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title
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Article, Myron H. Swenk, 1919
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description
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Typewritten enclosed article, 11 pages, titled "The Economic Value of the Ring-Necked Pheasant."
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Transcription
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THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE RING-NECKED PHEASANT. At the present time there is some interest being manifested on the part of the farmers of Nebraska as to the utilitarian value of imported pheasants, and particularly of the species known as the ring-necked pheasant, which, it is generally agreed, is the most pomising species for purposes of introduction or propagation. Partly, at least, as a result of the successful introduction of these birds into Colorado, and their well-known grasshopper-eating propensities, at the last (37th) regular session of the legislature of Nebraska, $15,000 was appropriated for the establishment of a game and fish substation in Dundy county, part of the work of which would be the "buying, importing, hatching and rearing of game birds, particularly pheasants, for distribution in the state of Nebraska or in such parts of the state as are affected with grasshoppers or other crop-destroying pests". At the same time the propagation of pheasants by individuals is being urged from several sources, it being asserted that these birds are adapted to any climate in the United States, that they can live outdoors in zero weather without injury and require practically no housing, nothing but a shelter from cold rains and sleet, and that they can be raised on the rear of any city lot as easily as chickens, that they require daily only about one-tenth the amount of food required by a chicken and mature in five months, when they weigh about six pounds and are an excellent table food. The present article is intended to discuss the general economic value of these interesting birds. China is the native home of the ring-necked pheasant, and, for that reason, it is sometimes called the "Chinese" pheasant, or quite erroneously, the "Mongolian" pheasant, which is an entirely different bird. It, and its close relative the so-called English pheasant, have been the object of many attempts, both successful and the opposite, at introduction into new countries. The latter species was brought from western Asia by the Greeks at about the time of Alexander the Great, and introduced into England by the Romans before the Norman Conquest. The earliest recorded successful introduction of
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date
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1919
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source/RG#/MS#
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MS 0371
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isPartOf/Collection
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Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU), Records
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rights
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For copyright information, please contact the repository.
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publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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language
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English
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