Editor's Introduction. xv 



Now, I believe, there is yet another change — perhaps 

 because some of those who know what pheasant-shooting 

 can be have decided that a thing was not necessarily 

 bad because some people overdid it. Pheasant-rearing 

 has begun again, and I think with justification. For if 

 pheasant-shooting is worth having at all, it is worth doing 

 the business of it well. If it is true, as I think it is, 

 that pheasants can be placed and reared and shot on ground 

 where other birds cannot, if they can be fed largelj' on the 

 natural fruit that our English woods provide, supplemented 

 by enough other food to keep them at home and out of the 

 farmer's fields till the corn is cut ; if it is a good thing to 

 provide healthy out-of-doors employment for a large body 

 of men ; if, in addition, it is granted that pheasants provide 

 an excellent form of food which can be cheaplj" produced 

 and put on the market to cheapen by competition the prices 

 of table poultry ; if all this is true, why, then, let us have 

 pheasant-shooting on a moderate scale for moderate men to 

 enjoy. That means rearing pheasants ; and it is to those who 

 wish to rear them econonaically and in the light of the 

 experience of others that this new edition of " Tegetmeier on 

 Pheasants " is addressed. Eric Parkee. 



