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across their main walks, tie two lines, one above the 

 other, the height they run ; drive them in with a dog. 

 When deer are forced, their horns lie straight with the 

 neck, which will, when in, entangle them. If they are 

 to be stalled, tie their legs, and saw their horns off just 

 below the antlers ; blind them with sacking, and then 

 take them to stall. 



The best food for them is cut clover-hay and oil-cakes, 

 ground and* mixed. Common feed in the park is hay, 

 beans, chestnuts, and drum-headed cabbages. When 

 taken with the greens, (which you may know by their 

 leaving the herd, and lying in wet grounds, when their 

 teeth are generally loose,) give them dirty potatoes, 

 grown in loamy clay, and clover hay. If they will not 

 feed, cram them with barley-meal pellets; and they 

 must be housed. There should be vaults, made by the 

 sides of hills, in parks, for deer to lodge in when the 

 weather is very wet ; and feeding stalls in different parts. 

 Vert, (which is all kinds of green wood in a forest,) with 

 the beech-mast, makes the venison much finer flavoured 

 than park feed ; though this may be much improved, by 

 carrying them plenty of browse- wood. Stock may be 

 three head per acre, if properly fed. 



PHEASANT-SHOOTING. 



PHEASANTS lie upon corn and stubbles, as long as any 

 food is to be found, and in the neighbouring coverts or 

 hedi-rows, where they may be seen morning and even- 



