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and it was urged that agricultural tenants 
should have the right to kill PHEASANTS 
destroying crops, and that this right should 
be extended to include GRoUSE and BLACK- 
GAME (Dumfries and Galloway Standard, 
13.11.18). 
During the season 1917-18 the shortage of 
materials with which to make sporting am- 
munition proved a real drawback to shooting 
for the pot, and it was even suggested that 
owners of shootings, as a consequence, should 
be remitted the rates they paid on the sport- 
ing value of their properties (Dazly Mail, 
10.viii.17). Cartridges, which before the war 
were sold for 8s. 4d. per 100, found eager 
buyers, when indeed they could be got, at 
20s. to 25s. per 100. The season proved a 
most prolific one for wild PHEASANTs, and 
large bags were made throughout the country. 
It was remarked that although these wild 
birds did not fly so uniformly high, they flew 
far more cunningly, and were much more 
wary, than the hand-reared birds of peace- 
time. About Christmas, when the price of 
all game and poultry was at a premium, 
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