SHOOTING THE PHEASANT 



Lothian those who know the most favoured ground 

 the best consider it superior even to Norfolk and 

 Suffolk. But the matter has to be differently ma- 

 naged there, and special qualities of tact and con- 

 sideration are necessary for the interests of what is 

 probably the best farmed region of the British Islands. 

 Those who are acquainted with the Scotch farmer 

 will know at once what I mean, and appreciate the 

 difference between raising game on land in his occu- 

 pation and on the heath lands of Norfolk. 



You could produce your result much more cheaply 

 in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire than in any 

 of the other counties named, although in some parts 

 of these, where crops are scarce, much artificial feed- 

 ing is necessary ; and, next to these, I should say in 

 Hants or Dorset. Against this you must consider 

 that you will have to pay a higher shooting rent than 

 in the latter counties. 



But, again, if you are the owner, and wish to have 

 very heavy shooting, either for your own amusement, 

 or in order to raise the reputation of your place as a 

 game estate, it may and ought in these days— granted 

 you are on favourable soil — to prove a very good 

 investment to go in for profitable sport on a large 

 scale with really careful management. 



If, on the other hand, your estate is in less favoured 



