MOOR MANAGEMENT 335 



These moors are still improving from the effect of years 

 of regular and heavy burning and draining. There is every 

 reason to suppose the rate of heather growth will increase, 

 thus affording an extended area of ground bearing a full crop 

 of food. 



An analysis of results is given in chart form on p. 334. 



Broomhead Moor, Yorkshire. 



This is a very remarkable moor. It has been well cared for 

 for over forty years ; it is now probably one of the best, if not 

 the best burned moor in England or Scotland, with the result 

 that it has not only the thickest but also the quickest growing 

 heather that the Committee have seen anywhere. 



There are not twenty square yards of old stick heather on 

 any portion of the ground ; there is a larger proportion of six- 

 to twelve-year-old heather than on any moor the Committee 

 have investigated, a bigger stock of birds is carried to the acre, 

 and disease has not occurred for over thirty years. 



On examining the Game Records the following points are 

 brought out : 



(1) The steady growth of bags from two hundred brace 



before 1870 with disease recurrent every few years, 

 up to two thousand seven hundred brace per annum 

 with no danger from disease. 



(2) In the last decade there appears to be a slight set-back, 



but this is more apparent than real, and unsuitable 

 weather in the shooting season is largely responsible. 



(3) There is now a larger stock on the ground than ever, 



and the owner with forty and the keeper with fifty-one 

 years' experience of the moor are agreed that the 

 maximum yield has not yet been reached. 



The points about this moor that are especially noteworthy 

 to moor-managers are that : 



(1) Though there is no long heather the birds are kept 

 on the moor all the winter. 



