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day with pheasant-coops, seldom showing their noses 
far’ from the main coverts, an easy prey to mowing- 
machines, vermin, dogs, and human depredators, 
who, either from hostility to the owner and his 
keepers or from greed of gain, make it certain that he 
cannot realise anything like the number of birds which 
his property should produce. 
: The scope of this work does not admit. of my 
giving every technical detail of the means for rearing, 
protecting, and preserving game, and, in fact, this 
has been so well and exhaustively done by others that 
it would be unnecessary. But whether you dally over 
the graceful pages of Richard Jefferies, ‘The Amateur 
Poacher,’ or search through the mass of practical detail 
provided by such experienced men as Lord Walsing- 
ham, Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Carnegie,! or others, 
you will find them all agreed upon one point. The 
farmers and farm labourers must be made your 
friends, or they will assuredly be your most formidable 
enemies. 
On the average estate, where the pheasant and 
partridge shooting are of about equal value, and still 
more on a property where it is intended to make 
partridges the principal consideration, I would strongly 
| Practical Game Preserving, by William Carnegie. 
