PART III. MANAGEMENT OF 

 GROUSE MOORS 



CHAPTER XI 



MOOR MANAGEMENT 



BEFORE going into the question of moor management and the 

 Various suggestions that have been brought forward from time 

 to time with the object of maintaining the health of Grouse, 

 it seems advisable to give a brief rhumb of some of the more 

 important hygienic and economic facts established in the 

 preceding chapters. 



New data, intelligently apprehended, must of necessity 

 entail a regrouping of ideas, and it is therefore expedient, in 

 the light of a heightened standard of knowledge, to re-examine 

 old assumptions, sift the good methods from the bad, and look 

 into the why and the wherefore of recognised specifics, before 

 embarking on suggestions as to the lines on which further 

 developments should best proceed. 



It is not only in the advancement of abstract knowledge and 

 the co-ordination of existing practice with scientifically estab- 

 lished fact that progress is to be made. The results on the 

 practical side should be no less important. In the first place, 

 the keeper is by profession a trained observer, arid, as far as 

 the consideration of natural phenomena is concerned, an educated 

 man. Nothing is more likely to act as a stimulus to personal 

 exertion, and therefore to increased attention to the moor, 

 than a clear understanding on his part, not only as to what 

 should be done of which he has already a pretty thorough 

 grasp but also as to the reason why a given action is taken 



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