PRESERVATION 107 



adversaries must not only ring the changes 

 on every known device, but also for ever 

 be devising new methods of baffling the 

 enemy. 



All nesting ground that admits of it 

 should be enclosed by six feet of well and 

 strongly set wire-netting, supported by a 

 strong steel wire run through it at half 

 its height. One authority 1 gives an in- 

 genious and economical method of making 

 this absolutely fox-proof. A single strand 

 of stout wire is stretched from standard 

 to standard above the wire-netting (the 

 standards, if of wood, must be provided 

 with an iron eyelet stanchion for the pur- 

 pose). Suspended on this wire by means of 

 bent wire cross-pieces are lengths of ridg- 

 ing, an inexpensive material of galvanized 

 sheet-iron. The ridging has free play, 

 working on the single wire, and any fox 

 trying to jump on to the top of the netting 

 fails to gain foothold and falls backwards. 



While all these palliative measures are 

 effective at times, it seems that in the 



1 Mr, W. Carnegie, in Practical Game Preserving. 



