Utility and Economy of Birds 



sion which investigated GROUSE disease, in 

 1905-11, estimated that the gross rental of 

 GROUSE moors in England and Scotland 

 amounted to no less than 1,270,000 annually. 

 It must here be noticed that the proposal to 

 allow of GROUSE being shot on August 5th, 

 which had been so ignominiously turned 

 down in the House of Commons in 1915, was 

 now effected, as regards England and Wales, 

 by an enactment, under the Defence of the 

 Realm Regulations, authorising the killing 

 of GROUSE on August 6th. It may also be 

 observed that GROUSE disease, probably due 

 to overstocking in 1915-16 and 1916-17, 

 was rampant on many moors, particularly in 

 Scotland. At least one County Executive 

 Committee in Scotland availed itself of the 

 powers conferred on it in connection with 

 food production, by taking possession of a 

 large GROUSE moor and appointing the tenant 

 on the estate as their agent to secure the 

 efficient grazing of the moor by sheep (Daily 

 Mail, i8.vi.i7). Feeling ran high in Scot- 

 land that the PHEASANT should not receive 

 the same treatment as across the Border, 



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