Pheasants. 



winter cannot be maintained ; the breeding stock must be 

 reduced to a minimum, and the ground be given its proper 

 and necessary rest to clean and rehabilitate itself under 

 Nature's infallible direction. 



If preservers themselves would fully grasp these facts, 

 and firmly instil them into the knowledge and belief of 

 their keepers, far more and far healthier birds would be 

 reared than is the case upon a very large percentage of the 

 British preserves of to-day. 



