234 PHEASANTS 



with a rearing - field altogether, which 

 cannot fail to interest all pheasant-rearers, 

 whatever they may think of the dry-food 

 system. 



A gamekeeper from Wales ^ — one of 

 those who are not bound by tradition, 

 but are ever ready to spare neither time 

 nor trouble in improving their methods — 

 informed the writer this year that he had 

 lately spent a holiday in the eastern 

 counties, where he found the dry-food 

 system gaining ground, and always well 

 spoken of by those who had given it a 

 trial. He met one East Anglian keeper 

 — apparently a man of some enterprise 

 and ingenuity — who had made marked 

 advance on usually accepted methods. In 

 the first place this rearer bought the 

 ingredients and mixed his own dry foods, 

 from which he claimed to have got better 

 results than with the foods prepared by 

 the game -food manufacturers, effecting 

 at the same time a saving of no less than 

 50 per cent on his food bill. 



^ Mr. J. Watkins, head-keeper at Powis Castle. 



