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making, it would give buyers of hay the opportunity of 

 knowing where the}" could purchase the best quaht5\ 



In those counties where grass is predominant and 

 hunting finds the greatest favour, oats are not grown in 

 sufficient quantity to meet the demand, but there are 

 always a few arable fields in the best turf areas, and 

 hunting men should try to buy their corn where they 

 hunt before ordering elsewhere. It is the least we can do 

 for the privilege we enjoy. 



I must admit that the unfortunate individual who 

 has spent most of his boyhood in a town is at a great 

 disadvantage when he begins hunting. However well 

 intentioned he may be " wheat " and " seeds '' are words 

 that convey httle to him, so that he will ride over both 

 in happy ignorance of his crime. He can try to leam 

 and then endeavour to put himseK in the place of the 

 farmer whose crop he damages. Personally, my behef 

 is that very little damage is done by riding over wheat 

 when there is a fairly good plant, but we have to consider 

 what the farmer thinks about it and not what our private 

 opinions on the subject may be. A good farmer looks 

 with pride on the orderly rows of green shoots that have 

 responded to his so^^dng, and when he visits the field 

 next day to find its fair surface pock-marked by the feet 

 of two hundred horses, you can hardly be surprised at 

 his being aimoyed. The first-class farmer looks on his 

 fields as 3'ou would on your garden. 



The man who is close to homids when thej^ are rumiing 

 fast may be forgiven if he leaves a gate open, and the 

 majority of farmers would excuse him, but when there is 

 no particular hurry gates should always be closed. Gates 

 are very friendly things when we wish to avoid the 

 fences, but we should remember they are meant for 

 keeping the stock in the fields and if left open the farmer 



