The Huntsman's Best Friend is the Farmer 



IT is only appropriate that a word of appreciation 

 should be tendered, at the end of the Hunting Season, 

 to the men who make hunting possible the farmers. 

 With the exception of the Master, the Secretary, and 

 those intimately connected with the management of the 

 hunt, comparatively few followers know anything of the 

 farmer's contribution to the sport. 



One must have foxes, hares, stag, or quarry of some 

 sort to justify the existence of hunting. The quarry is 

 most important. When it is available one can chase it, 

 but as it has a habit of ignoring the orderliness of 

 tarmacadam, and prefers to ramble at will over the 

 countryside, it is this very liberty of conscience on the 

 part of the quarry that makes the farmer such an 

 important factor in hunting. Unless the farmer is 

 willing to allow hounds to hunt over his land there would 

 be no point in maintaining a pack of hounds. The 

 quarry could be shot, trapped or killed by divers methods 

 and possibly become extinct; or, if left unmolested, 

 might develop into a widespread pest. 



That foxes can be a most annoying and destructive 

 pest in some districts is readily acknowledged, and the 

 sight of hounds in such localities is a welcome one. 



