Birds as Food 



and it was urged that agricultural tenants 

 should have the right to kill PHEASANTS 

 destroying crops, and that this right should 

 be extended to include GROUSE and BLACK- 

 GAME (Dumfries and Galloway Standard, 

 I3.ii.i8). 



During the season 1917-18 the shortage of 

 materials with which to make sporting am- 

 munition proved a real drawback to shooting 

 for the pot, and it was even suggested that 

 owners of shootings, as a consequence, should 

 be remitted the rates they paid on the sport- 

 ing value of their properties (Daily Mail, 

 10 . viii .17). Cartridges, which before the war 

 were sold for 8s. 4^. per 100, found eager 

 buyers, when indeed they could be got, at 

 2os. to 255. per 100. The season proved a 

 most prolific one for wild PHEASANTS, and 

 large bags were made throughout the country. 

 It was remarked that although these wild 

 birds did not fly so uniformly high, they flew 

 far more cunningly, and were much more 

 wary, than the hand-reared birds of peace- 

 time. About Christmas, when the price of 

 all game and poultry was at a premium, 



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