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be sedulously driven in from hedgerows and out of 

 root crops, or you will lose many. 



Enormous quantities of pheasants are now reared 

 in England and Scotland, and it is therefore no 

 longer interesting to record the totals obtained on 

 good shooting estates. Suffice it to say that it is easy 

 enough, in a favourable county, and with a certain 

 expenditure, to kill 2,000 pheasants in one day, or 

 even more if you wish it ; while the number of places 

 where from 600 to 1,000 are recorded as one day's 

 bag are probably twenty times as numerous as when 

 I began to shoot nearly thirty years ago. As I have 

 said before, I think this an advantage, and I have 

 never met a man who cares for shooting, let him 

 write or protest as he may, who will not gladly join a 

 party for one of these heavy days whenever he gets 

 the chance. 



As there are many false impressions amoijgst 

 those who do not share in the sport of pheasant or 

 any other shooting, my duty is to record the fact 

 that it is generally conducted, as it should be, with 

 the greatest liberality to all concerned, as well as to 

 thousands who are not concerned in it. The great 

 game preservers give away enormous quantities of 

 this expensive product, and sell much less than is 

 generally supposed. The Prince of Wales royally 



