Utility and Economy of Birds 
The difficulty, experienced in this country 
in the previous season, of obtaining sporting 
ammunition was minimised by cartridge 
dealers being allowed to sell not more than 
500 cartridges a fortnight to holders of game- 
licences, or 300 cartridges a fortnight to 
holders of gun-licences, on the production of 
their licences, the price of cartridges being 
fixed at a maximum of 20s. per 100. Many 
a grouse-moor went a-begging: the shooting 
of g00 GROUSE in Peeblesshire was offered at 
f{100, 600 and 500 GRousEin Argyllshire were 
advertised at {100 and {60 respectively, and 
the celebrated Bowes Moor, of 12,000 acres, 
once more reverted to being shot over by 
“‘ticket-holders’’ limited in number to twenty- 
four (The Field, 10.viii.18). GAME through- 
out the country proved to be plentiful on 
the whole, though GROUSE and BLACK-GAME 
were below the average ; PHEASANTS were as 
numerous as in the preceding season, and 
PARTRIDGES were in many places more than 
usually abundant. The legal period for shoot- 
ing GROUSE and BLACK-GAME was extended, 
as in 1918, to January 20th, IgIoQ. 
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