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is to put the birds straight into ' carriers,' 

 each holding twenty or thirty birds, and 

 fasten the carriers straight into the cart ; 

 some method of hooking them up being 

 easy to devise. The total may then 

 readily be reckoned at any time by 

 checking the number of full carriers, the 

 bag may be well displayed at lunch time 

 by simply lifting the full carriers out and 

 propping them up on standards, and all 

 unnecessary handling of the birds is thus 

 avoided. 



While on still days the crescent forma- 

 tion is the best for the driving line to 

 adopt, whenever the wind is blowing 

 with any force from a flank or against 

 the drive, the greatest care is necessary 

 to adopt an appropriate formation. The 

 first diagram shows the method of driv- 

 ing a turnip-field with a cross head-wind. 

 The whole secret of the drive is to force 

 the birds into the up-wind corner of the 

 field. Once this is accomplished and 

 it is possibly the most difficult manoeuvre 

 in driving, demanding careful and skilful 



