Utility and Economy of Birds 



The difficulty, experienced in this country 

 in the previous season, of obtaining sporting 

 ammunition was minimised by cartridge 

 dealers being allowed to sell not more than 

 500 cartridges a fortnight to holders of game- 

 licences, or 300 cartridges a fortnight to 

 holders of gun-licences, on the production of 

 their licences, the price of cartridges being 

 fixed at a maximum of 20$. per 100. Many 

 a grouse-moor went a-begging : the shooting 

 of 900 GROUSE in Peeblesshire was offered at 

 100, 600 and 500 GROUSE in Argyllshire were 

 advertised at 100 and 60 respectively, and 

 the celebrated Bowes Moor, of 12,000 acres, 

 once more reverted to being shot over by 

 ' ' ticket-holders ' ' limited in number to twenty- 

 four (The Field, io.viii.i8). GAME through- 

 out the country proved to be plentiful on 

 the whole, though GROUSE and BLACK-GAME 

 were below the average ; PHEASANTS were as 

 numerous as in the preceding season, and 

 PARTRIDGES were in many places more than 

 usually abundant . The legal period for shoot- 

 ing GROUSE and BLACK-GAME was extended, 

 as in 1918, to January 2Oth, 1919. 



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