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PHEASANT REARING (PART VIII} 157 



Two or three patches of rakings can be arranged 

 in a fair- sized covert with great advantage, and 

 always on the sides farthest from your boundary 

 fence, if this happens to be near at hand. 



In the centre of each patch of rakings, drive four 

 posts in the ground 12 ft. apart, standing 2 ft. 6 in. 

 high, to form a square ; nail side-rails round the posts 

 on their tops, and lash strong tarred sheep netting of 

 cord (4-in. mesh) tightly over in the form of a roof 



Fr<;. 27. A FEEDIXG STACK FOR PLACIXG ix A COVEKT T<> AMUSE PHEASANT- 



AND GIVE THEM DllY F<".n, AXD ALSO TO SHELTER THE BIRDS DURIXG WET. 



Size of framework, 12 ft. square by 2 ft. 6 in. high. 



(not -wire netting, or the birds will skin their foreheads 

 against it). 



Obtain some unthreshed barley and wheat, and 

 lay it on the netting so that the heads of the corn 

 hang through a few inches underneath, and its straw 

 covers the grain up outside from wet and small birds. 

 The pheasants will never tire of jumping up for the 

 corn that hangs above them, and they will continually 

 scratch and dust and feed under this rough shelter 

 (fig. 27). 



