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but when your neighbours happen to be sheep farmers, 

 with a host of active little bovines on all sides, and for 

 ever straying on it, or crossing it, or being driven at a 

 wild gallop out of it, the matter assumes another aspect. 

 It is not possible to have a wall to keep them out, and it 

 follows that unless neighbours are agreeable, grouse-rearing 

 is out of the question. Our advice to anyone wanting 

 a moor is to acquire one in a part where grouse rearing 

 and preserving and shooting is the only business. It may 

 involve a tedious wait, but sooner or later one is sure to 

 drop on the right thing in the right place, and if it be not 

 already used for the multiplication of Lagopus Sections, so 

 much the better, as the interloper will earn the gratitude 

 of his neighbours who pursue the practice. 



The establishment of grouse on land where for some 

 time previously they have not been preserved, or scarcely 

 ever been seen, is a work of some difficulty. That it can be 

 done has been proved over and over again, as witness the 

 large head of grouse on many manors where there were 

 formerly none or very few. But it is a matter requiring 

 a far greater amount of care, attention, and experience than 

 the introduction of pheasants or partridges upon a wooded 

 estate or a gentleman's farm. It is one, moreover, which 

 requires considerably more finesse than most people suppose. 

 Highland keepers and the north " country " Johnnies" cer- 

 tainly bring a fair share of experience to work, but they 

 bring as much tact and wiliness, which stand them in good 

 stead in obtaining and keeping birds upon their lands. 



Grouse to be turned down upon land must be obtained 

 from places possessing similar characteristics of locality and 



