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tensive pheasant rearing, and there should 

 be no excuse possible for everything in 

 the keeper's charge — from the drains of 

 his aviary to the woodwork of his coops 

 — not being kept in apple-pie order. 



While we have expressly renounced all 

 intention of following in detail the routine 

 of the rearing-field, there are a few matters 

 of general interest connected with the 

 business which seem to call for brief 

 mention. In the first instance there is 

 the question of supplying the eggs re- 

 quired for the purposes of rearing. 



There are still a certain number of 

 places where the eggs picked up in and 

 about the woods are exclusively relied on 

 to supply the material for several hundred 

 coops. But this system has surely little 

 to recommend it from a practical point 

 of view, involving as it must an undesir- 

 able uncertainty in result, combined with 

 a heavy additional burden of time and 

 trouble for the keepers in hunting for 

 eggs. 



Setting aside this practice of rearing 



