DESTEUCTION OP GAME. 21 



Should you be beating a hilly country, where there is 

 not much cover for birds, and your valleys be low, with 

 hedgerows, gorse, and other low cover, endeavour as 

 much as possible to drive the birds in that direction. 

 Here you may be certain the birds will lie well, and if 

 you have a spaniel or retriever tant riiieux. If you mark 

 a covey down the top of a field with a steep slope, go 

 up to them at once, for partridges do not like running 

 down hill, but are fond of running up hill. 



Much game has sometimes been destroyed, both 

 pheasants and partridges, by farmers steeping their seed 

 wheat in a solution of arsenic to prevent the smut. I 

 understand that lime will answer the same purpose and 

 do the birds no harm. I can speak feelingly about the 

 above blight, as I had one field, containing forty acres of 

 wheat completely destroyed by the smut ; a very serious 

 loss. 



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