MANAGEMENT OF MOORS 39 



little or no special adaptation to the rear- 

 ing and holding in a healthy condition of 

 a numerous stock of birds. 



Now there has been an awakening 

 to the possibilities of improvement ; to 

 the advantages of calculated intelligent 

 management ; and the necessity and 

 value of unremitting attention to the 

 moor throughout the whole year. All 

 things have become new. A bare 

 enumeration of the points in which the 

 latest system of grouse-moor management 

 differs from and excels all former systems, 

 or perhaps we should say want of system, 

 is enough to show how different is the 

 new from the old. Standardisation takes 

 the place of empiricism on every leading 

 moor with most satisfactory results, which 

 have more than justified the foresight, 

 skill, and capital which have been em- 

 ployed in producing a change so beneficial. 



Let us begin at the beginning. The 

 first and most essential necessity of success 

 is that the moor shall be under the care 

 and skilled control of an active and 



