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nothing but an uncommonly bald and old-fashioned 

 method of feeding to point out to those who bear me 

 company ; but, as Oliver Goldsmith very wisely 

 remarks in the " Traveller : " 



Just experience tells in every soil 



That those that think must govern those that toil. 



(Line 372.) 



So I trust that an accurate description, entered upon 

 with the addition of as much detail as the writer 

 is capable of, may be of use to the hundreds of work- 

 ing gamekeepers fellow members, I hope, of the 

 Keepers' Benefit Society, 4, Carlton-street, Regent- 

 street, London who are throughout the spring of 

 the year engaged in alternately cursing the weather 

 and doing the best they can for the embryo " food for 

 powder " which engages their undivided attention. 



The mode of feeding now to be described, although 

 simplicity itself, has been found very successful at 

 Rhiwlas for a sufficient number of years to establish 

 its character ; and I see no reason why, if carefully 

 carried out, it should not prove equally efficacious 

 elsewhere if, indeed, it has not been tried already ; 

 for, as before mentioned, there is nothing startling or 

 particularly novel in our method of procedure, the 

 grand principles of feeding young pheasants success- 

 fully being, in my opinion 



First, the procuring of every ingredient of the very 

 best possible quality ; and, 



Secondly, the entrusting of the mixing and adminis- 



