WOODLANDS, GAME, AND SPORT 297 
Where a large head of ground game is main- 
tained, careful fencing with wire partly buried in 
the ground is the only practical means of keeping 
rabbits inside a warren, or of keeping them out of 
plantations, and preventing them doing great 
damage if they abound in large numbers. But 
such fencing soon runs into a lot of money, if 
done on any large scale. Where rabbits multiply 
greatly, stoats and weasels would soon also mul- 
tiply and maintain the balance of nature, were it 
not the gamekeeper’s duty to prevent that. 
Sport and Forestry are, I hold, by no 
means incompatible with each other. The only 
proviso is that the preservation of game must 
not be on too large a scale if the forests are 
intended to be worked commercially. I think 
ample proof of this is given in the forests of 
France and Germany, those owned by private 
landholders as well as those belonging to the 
State, where excellent sport is obtained in con- 
junction with economic forestry conducted more 
scientifically, and with greater financial success, 
than in any other countries in the world. But 
sport does not necessarily mean rabbits, which the 
forester is forced to class as ‘ vermin” when they 
