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nature, and rules which have proved suc- 

 cessful in one part of the country are by 

 no means necessarily adapted for universal 

 application. In such a case the opinions 

 of many, based on a variety of experience, 

 must far outweigh the humbler judgment 

 of one who has only the limits of his own 

 narrower experience from which to draw 

 his conclusions. 



Any writer on partridge preservation 

 cannot fail to be largely influenced by his 

 own experiences at the game ; he is apt to 

 argue from the particular to the general, 

 and formulate for the guidance of others, 

 working under vastly different conditions, 

 a system which he has found successful 

 in his own little corner of the partridge 

 world. 



The following series of notes from 

 close on twenty different estates, ranging 

 from the south of England to the north 

 of Scotland, will, it is hoped, form a sum- 

 mary, more or less complete, of the 

 various methods of to-day ; at least it 

 was with this end in view that they were 



