CHAPTER IV. 



THE SLAUGHTER OF VERMIN. 



1HLYING vermin are the greatest pests of 

 JL a keepers life, breeding, according to 

 nature's laws, at the same time as pheasants 

 and partridges, and roaming afar in search of 

 food for their young. They are indigenous, or 

 to speak more correctly native to the soil, 

 whilst pheasants have to be imported, and 

 gradually localized ; therefore, during the 

 breeding season and rearing season, a keeper 

 has to be continually on the alert, in 

 the daytime, against the attacks of flying 

 vermin. 



