IJo SHOOTING THE. PHEASANT 



racing, for dwelling upon what is done at Newmarket. 

 For more years, probably, than could be counted at 

 any other place in England, this question has been 

 studied and practised to perfection on this the king 

 of shooting estates. More pheasants have been killed 

 in a day at other places, and, though only once, more 

 partridges ; but for both these combined, as well as 

 for ground-game, wildfowl, wood-pigeons, woodcocks, 

 or any other kind of English game but grouse, the large 

 acreage, climate, soil, and management of Holkham 

 have for years placed its owner in the position of being 

 able, if so minded, to equal or eclipse all other records. 

 It will at once be remarked that most places 

 have not the same advantages, and that what answers 

 in a locality so especially favourable to game in 

 general, and this method of beating woods in par- 

 ticular, would not be equally practicable elsewhere. 

 To this my answer would be that, allowing for dif- 

 ferent formation of coverts, and more especially con- 

 sidering the possibility of easily altering such coverts 

 so as to suit your pheasant shooting, I have never yet 

 seen a place where the main principle here quoted 

 would not hold good, or where something like the 

 sarne conditions could not be reproduced. 



' If you have no detached covert, spinney, or clump 

 outside your principal wood, it is usually easy to plant 



