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increased recognition of the fact that in 

 reality little difference exists. What 

 heacher may be profitably burned for the 

 grazing tenant will also be profitable for 

 the shooting tenant when this is methodi- 

 cally, skilfully, and moderately carried 

 out. In the authorities of yet later 

 date, such as Lord Walsingham in the 

 Badminton Library, Mr. Stuart Wortley 

 in the Fur and Feather Series, and 

 Mr. Mackie in The Keepers Book, 

 and The Mackintosh, whose successes in 

 grouse shooting have been very great, 

 more insistence on a judicious treatment 

 of heather as an absolutely essential 

 factor of successful grouse rearing is 

 found. But it is when the records are 

 examined of the most famous moors in 

 our own day, where heather burning has 

 been standardised and subjected to the 

 established results of most careful and 

 adequate experiments, where, in short, this 

 matter is treated seriously in a scientific 

 light, that the greatest successes of grouse 

 shooting are seen. These striking sue- 



