148 PHEASANTS 



On the average estate, then, the forester 

 and gamekeeper must share possession 

 of the woods, and it only remains to 

 determine how they can be made to serve 

 the interests of both at once. Now it is 

 obvious, on the one hand, that if game is 

 to flourish, the forester must sacrifice his 

 dense block of close-grown trees, beneath 

 which all is dark, sunless and bare ; while 

 on the other, if any timber worthy of the 

 name is to be produced, the gamekeeper 

 must equally resign all ideas of tangled 

 brakes with scattered trees enough for 

 shade and shelter and no more. 



There then seem to be two practicable 

 methods — not usually indeed alternative, 

 for one or the other will be found better 

 suited to each particular case — which shall 

 make the same woods serve two masters, 

 in as little unhappy a compromise as is 

 possible where directly conflicting in- 

 terests have to be considered. Applicable 

 either to the treatment of existing woods 

 or to the planning and planting of new 

 coverts, the employment of one or other 



