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reckoned as equal to the rent. On not a 

 few large shootings, where the extent and 

 fructibility of the shooting enable a large 

 number of guns and guests to be enter- 

 tained, the expenses are correspondingly 

 large, and probably exceed the estimate 

 of being equal to the rent. On the other 

 hand, there are many others where these 

 conditions do not obtain, and the costs 

 are no doubt less than the rent. But in 

 taking this standard as the means of 

 expenses over all the shootings, we have a 

 further sum of £789,250. 



To these amounts have to be added 

 the rents of 197 deer forests, which, 

 speaking generally, are larger and more 

 expensive than grouse shootings, and will 

 certainly not be over-estimated in rent at 

 £800 on the average, for many of them 

 reach £3000 and some £4000. Thus, 

 197 deer forests at £800 come to £157, GOO 

 in rents, and a similar amount in expenses, 

 for the working cost of an average deer 

 forest is certainly not less than that of an 

 average grouse moor. 



