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EXAMPLE Xo. 2. (An unfavourable estate for game) 



ACCOUNT OF GAME PRESERVING ON AN ESTATE CONSISTING OF 3,500 

 ACRES, AMOUNT OF WOOD 180 ACRES. SEASON 1891-92. 



Total game killed, including rabbits ferreted and trapped : 

 Pheasants Partridges Hares Rabbits Total 



1,602 518 220 1,350 3,690 



(EXPENSES) 



s. d. 

 Wages of three keepers, and assistance in rearing and 



watching 201 11 7 



Pheasant food (including corn for farm hens) . . 240 7 

 Amount out of pocket, after the rearing season, on 



sale of hens bought from farmers in the spring . 16 9 3 



Food for dogs 15 10 11 



Beaters (wages) 30 14 



Extras, including compensation for damages by 



rabbits, rent of rearing field, licences, &c. . . 40 12 3 



Total cost . . . 545 5 

 Value of game killed . 334 13 



Total loss . , 210 12 



(NOTE ON EXAMPLE 2) 



Hen pheasants in aviary for laying 114 



Eggs laid in aviary 2,290 



Wild-laid eggs picked up in the woods and fields . . 950 



Total number of eggs set under farm hens . 3,240 

 Birds turned down, 1,800 ; killed, 1,602. 



Cost of these 1,602 pheasants in food from Feb. 1 to Feb. 1 (inclu- 

 sive of birds in aviary, in rearing field, and in the woods), 240Z. 7s. 



1,002 pheasants killed at an outlay of 240Z. 7s. expended in 

 food gives 3s. as the cost of each pheasant brought into the larder 

 between Feb. 1, 1890, and Feb. 1, 1891, for feeding only. 



In the foregoing accounts no deductions are allowed for game pre- 

 sented to tenants, as, though it is incumbent on the landlord of a 

 sporting estate to be liberal in this respect, yet such generosity (some 

 folk might call it diplomacy) is independent of the actual cost of 

 preserving. 



