RELATION TO HEATHER 85 



ways of caring for heather. Not only 

 the shepherds and the gamekeepers, 

 representing respectively the grazing 

 and the shooting tenants, but these 

 tenants themselves (and of course the 

 landlord always) were involved in ever- 

 recurring disputes concerning the loca- 

 tion, condition, and extent of the areas of 

 heather which should be burned in each 

 succeeding year. Of recent years, how- 

 ever, opposition of view in these matters 

 has largely disappeared. The occupant 

 of the grazing and the occupant of the 

 shooting have perceived, what, from a 

 common-sense view of the matter it is 

 amazing should not have been always 

 clearly perceptible, that their respective 

 interests in the heather do not really 

 conflict, but that for the feeding and 

 healthy condition of grouse a full supply 

 of young succulent heather is as essential 

 as for successful pastoral farming, and 

 that certain precautions and reservations 

 as to shelter and cover for young grouse 

 being allowed, their requirements as 



