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are either regularly let or shot over by 

 their owners ; of these, 3157 are grouse 

 and general shootings, and 197 are deer 

 forests, which also contain a certain 

 number of grouse and other game. If 

 the average rent of a Scottish grouse 

 moor and other shootings, exclusive of 

 deer forests, be taken at £250, the ciimido 

 annual rental will be £789,250. 



As to other expenses, it is sometimes 

 said in a rough generalisation of the 

 expenses of shooting tenants that each 

 brace of grouse costs £l. This, upon the 

 foregoing calculation of rent value, would 

 mean a grouse crop of 1,578,500 killed in 

 a single season. But this is a fallacious 

 or, at best, haphazard and uncertain factor 

 of calculation, and probably shows a 

 result in excess of the actual produce of 

 the moors. It assumes a uniform ratio 

 of bag not only on all moors but in all 

 years, which is self-evidently unreliable. 



A much better index of the amount of 

 the tenants expenses of all kinds, apart 

 from rent, is, that the expenses may be 



