CHAPTER VI 



GAME-COVERTS 



In the last chapter the difficulties of 

 making our woods good game- coverts 

 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. 



Such consideration we trust that they 



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