i64 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



included, while for the past four years they have 

 averaged about 14 stone, although every care has 

 been taken not to kill small beasts. The present 

 lessee attributes this shortness of weight to two 

 causes : first, the grazing is not so good as could 

 be wished ; and, secondly, owing to the small 

 number of hinds, all the best stags desert the 

 forest as soon as the rut commences, to make for 

 the adjacent ones, in which the bulk of the hinds 

 are quartered. Since Baron Schroder has had Glen- 

 feshie, his best season was in 1893, when he got 

 several fine stags of from 19 to 16 stone, one of 

 which had a splendid head of thirteen points, with 

 a span of 34 inches inside and 38 inches outside 

 measurement. 



Since 1892 there has been a beautiful white hart 

 in this forest, which has grown into a fine beast with 

 a good head, but up to July, '95, he had not made 

 his re-appearance, albeit the Baron has no doubt of 

 seeing him again, as he has the assurance of all his 

 neighbours that they will not touch him. In a case 



