WOODLANDS, GAME, AND SPORT 311 



entitles this typically British form of forestry to 

 the strongest claim for favourable consideration 

 as regards future management of woodlands on 

 a more economic basis than has been customary 

 in the past. Pheasant shooting in particular can 

 easily be amply provided for by encouraging the 

 growth of berry-producing shrubs along the edges 

 of the rides or green lanes, useful for autumn 

 game-driving, and necessary in any case for the 

 proper conduct of forest operations according to 

 a fixed plan of operations or comprehensive scheme 

 of management. In large woods special plots 

 can be reserved and specially treated for phea- 

 sants by being thrown out of the general scheme 

 of management. 



Certainly, if the woodlands in the British Isles 

 be extended so as in future to be able to produce 

 at any rate a larger share of the timber we annu- 

 ally require in vast and ever-increasing quantity, 

 and if these be managed on economic and not 

 on merely arboricultural principles, true sports- 

 men will be the gainers, for Sport will then be 

 raised up once more from the rather degraded 

 position to which it has gradually sunk during 

 the course of the last fifty or sixty years. 



