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hand-rearing are fully given in the cata- 

 logues of every game-food manufacturer, 

 the notes and hints in which are usually 

 written by some keeper of experience. 

 Without wishing to give any one a free 

 advertisement it may be pardonable to 

 note in particular Messrs. Gilbertson & 

 Page's handy little pocket manual of 

 pheasant rearing, which this enterprising 

 firm sell at the modest price of sixpence. 

 In so far as the merits of their own pro- 

 ductions are concerned, we cannot hope 

 to find any manufacturers at once im- 

 partial and commercial, but on the general 

 questions of management this little 

 treatise is sound and sufficient. Any who 

 wish to keep abreast of the times in their 

 methods of rearing, will find all they want 

 among the monthly numbers of the 

 Gamekeeper, in whose pages many keepers 

 from time to time discuss their difficulties, 

 and offer hints from their own experience. 

 For practical experience is, after all, 

 the only safe guide, and after making an 

 expedition last summer round some of the 



