72 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



hatched in coops, removal of the latter, with the hens 

 and chicks, to the field. 



XIII. ' Fixing runs before the coops that contain 

 birds just hatched. 



XIV. 'Placing fir boughs near the coops, as 

 shelters for the chicks. 



XV. * Constant supervision in feeding, vermin 

 destroying, and shifting of the coops about the field 

 for some two months. 



XVI. ' Subsequent removal of the coops, hens, and 

 young, as the latter become well grown, to the out- 

 skirts or rides of the woods. 



XVII. ' Feeding the young birds in the woods, 

 and protecting them from vermin, especially hawks. 



XVIII. ' Driving home day by day the birds that 

 stray, and continuing to do so up to the morning they 

 are shot.' 



THE SELECTION OF A REARING FIELD 



Though it is easy to lay down rules concerning 

 the best kind of field to utilise for pheasant rearing, it 

 is not always so easy to obtain it, as the field you 

 covet may not be one the farming tenant is willing to 

 give up, unless perhaps you agree to pay him any 

 possible profits on it in addition to its rent. 



Select, if you can, a smooth field that is in no 

 part shadowed by a hill or by trees, and which slopes 

 towards and faces the sun throughout the greater 

 part of the day, particularly in the morning. The 



