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Show i ill Ts rOTHRIVl l oi. i M DAKOTA WOODS (Cy Internal. onal New Service) VAiEi CITY. N D. Sixty ring-necked ring-necked pheasants wers set nt liberty i i the wooded country near h re re-i re-i t ntly by the North Dakota fish and game commission. Four more flock? oi sixt . -i i will be liberated In other parts of the state in the next few weeks. The birds vere bred on the Stats game farm near Grafton. This Is the inauguration of n cam-Patgn cam-Patgn to stock North Dakota farm lands and unsettled areas with this hardy and gorgeous bird which furnishes fur-nishes splendid shooting and Is rnre-Ij rnre-Ij toothsome. The most succs:.ful xpsrlmenl of the kin ever made In America was In Oregon. A few ring-i ring-i eck phe-jsants liberated there multiplied multi-plied so rapidly that In a fen years they were plentiful in nil the wild COVertS of the state. The original home of the ring-neck Is northern China, where the winters are seere and It Is believed North Dakota will be ideally adapted to a bird of such racial cold Sfeather traditions. |