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estimated that the foregoing gross rent may be apportioned 

 roughly as follows : 



Net profit to the proprietor about 34 per cent. 

 Wages to the permanent staff about 35 per cent. 

 Cost of upkeep, interest on capital expenditure, value of 

 gamekeepers' houses, wear and tear, rates and taxes, 

 etc., about 31 per cent. 

 The result in actual figures would therefore be 



Profit 431,800. 



Wages 444,500. 



Cost 393,700. 



Apart from the direct profits derived from shooting rents, 

 Grouse Shooting also produces a large amount of indirect 

 profit to the community. This indirect profit consists mainly 

 of wages for temporary assistants, such as drivers, ghillies, 

 pony men, and dog men traffic in household supplies, sporting 

 requisites, hiring, carting, etc., and outlay on building, equip- 

 ping, and maintaining shooting lodges. These indirect profits 

 cannot be very exactly stated, but a fair estimate of their amount 

 may be obtained when it is stated that it is the combined 

 experience of shooting tenants that for every l spent in rent 

 from 15s. to l is spent on other expenses connected with the 

 undertaking. 



In spite of the favourable conditions referred to it seems 

 unlikely that the rent per brace will continue to rise indefinitely, 

 and moor owners have recognised that the best method of 

 profiting by the present active demand is to develop the capacity 

 of their moors so as to give as large and as steady a yield as 

 possible. That this object can be achieved has been proved 

 by the example of a few well-known moors, where the average 

 yield has been increased by many hundreds per cent, as a result 

 of judicious management. In the majority of cases, however, 

 little progress has been made in this direction. The proprietor 

 often has not the leisure to devote to moor management, some- 



