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Practical Game Preserving. 





water to a mine. This will serve as a guide to anyone 

 making an artificial earth in this manner. If it be at all 

 desired to maintain the foxes within certain prescribed 

 limits, it is a matter of necessity that they be watched, 

 and kept unmolested, and as idle as possible, by providing 

 them with plenty of food. 



Cubs must be obtained see that it is from a trustworthy 

 source and put into the earth, and if necessary, they 



FIG. 44.-PLA.N OP POX'S EARTH. 



should be continually scurried back into its fastnesses if 

 they incline to wander. Owing in all probability to certain 

 defects of the site and surroundings, it may be found 

 necessary to put up wire fencing round an acre or two of 

 the land ; but a well-formed and well-looked-after gorse 

 covert and earth is decidedly preferable. 



For a good gorse covert for foxes there is no better site 

 than a small pasture field surrounded on three or all sides 

 by covert. An acre or two square in the centre of this 



