CHAPTER VI 



GAME-COVERTS 



IN the last chapter the difficulties of 

 making our woods good game -co verts 

 without entirely sacrificing all prospect of 

 eventual yield of timber were discussed at 

 some length. This is but one aspect of 

 woodland management an aspect, indeed, 

 which many writers on shooting are apt 

 to pass over in silence as one beyond the 

 province of sport altogether; yet the 

 interests of forestry an important con- 

 sideration in the economy of every estate 

 where business methods prevail must 

 always be so intimately connected with 

 the requirements of covert-shooting, that 

 they may fairly claim full consideration 

 at our hands. 



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