IN the first two or three pages of chapter x of 
Wild Life in the Hampshire Highlands, one of the 
earlier volumes of this Series, Mr. Dewar has 
stated the case as to woods and game both well 
and moderately: ‘Forestry and game preservation 
on a really considerable scale do not by any means 
always fit in well with each other,’ he says, while 
he gives a concrete example, with particular re- 
ference to ground game, in which a landowner, 
on re-entering into possession from his late 
sporting tenants, wrote in bitterness of spirit that 
‘this fine old estate, with its beautiful forest and 
woods, has been eaten up by Raddits, and the mis- 
chief done is incalculable and irretrievable,’ 
Similar examples could be multiplied to a vast 
extent. The magnitude of the destruction rabbits 
can cause was indicated in the evidence given 
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