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waters. If one is lucky enougli to find a. j heel where Duck 

 stay thronghoiit the 24 hours, one can afford to knock off 

 for lunch on the bank, but a number of boats moving 

 about on the same water cause great disturbance. 



Yjjr^.j,,,^ 4G. Each particular lake should be shot when it is in 



coniiitionsof (he l)est condition to retain the ])irds on it. It is obvious 

 different^ tliat the same water cannot be sliot at the same date every 

 different year, as rainfall and inundation vary considerably from 



times. ypj^i- to yc^ar. At one time there will be too much water 



in one place and at another too little : the right time 

 must be closely watched. Careful treatment, early, of 

 surrounding smaller and shallower pools will have the 

 effect of pi-eserving for the close of the season any parti- 

 cular large and deep water, Thu§, by concentrating 

 attention before the end of January on the pools B, C, D, 

 E, etc, etc., on the Map, the large lake A became, in a 

 year of plentiful water, an asylum for the birds, resulting 

 in good shooting right up to end of February, 



Ireatraent 47. Once one has decided wliich water to shoot, the 



of mam pioblem is twofold, viz., how on the one hand to keep 



jiibsidiary the birds on the place winch one is shooting and hoo' to 

 waters. keep them off the places which one is not. In certain 



years, and particularly early in tlie season, there is plenty 

 of water everywhere and birds disturbed at anyone jAf>e/, 

 however important, have a number of other spots to go to. 

 All arrangements in regard to the jheet selected should be 

 made well in advance. The building of butts on the 

 water and the making even of roads on the bank upsets 

 the waterfowl. On some of the hig M'aters fishermen have 

 licenses to catch fish, and, if complete success is to be 

 attained, these fishing operations should be suspended for 

 as long as necessary. Arrangements can be made with 

 the villagers to keep cattle and men awry from particular 

 waters at particular times. The shortest way sliould be 

 taken from the bank to each butt, in order to minimise 

 disturbance of the water by the boats going to the butts 

 and this is a point to be remembered in constructing 

 roads along the shore. Almost as im]»ortant are the 

 arrangements in regard to tlie waters which are nut to be 

 shot as part of the grand scheme, A complete survey 

 should be made of these so that none remains unwatched. 

 A big slioot has been known to fail because, early in the 

 day, the birds all left the waters selected and known for 

 one close by which the organisers of the shoot had omit- 

 ted or forgotten. Ihiefiy, sufficient, but not more than 

 sufficient, arrangements snould be made to prevent the 

 birds from settling on small waters in the neighbourhood. 

 This is not so easy as it sounds. Experience has shown 

 that bombers and birds-scarers often show too much zeal 



