Practical Game-Preserving. 



A length of about i5ft. is sufficient, but where more 

 accommodation is necessary, several separate ones should 

 be put up at distances of some yards apart, or on 

 different sides of the fields. 



The spots chosen should be dry, and naturally selected 

 with a view to suitability for the purpose intended. The 

 food should be scattered beneath the sheathing, and sparse 

 lines of it dropped, so as to attract the birds to the ends 

 and any openings in the sides. Barley, tares, hemp, and 

 millet-seeds, with a small quantity of maize, are the best 



foods to provide for 

 the purpose. 



In those parts 

 where earth hedge- 

 rows and stone walls 

 give place to quick 

 hedges of thorn and 

 other growth, the 

 form of food-shelter 

 already described 

 would be impractic- 

 able ; consequently, 

 another means must 

 be employed, where 

 the partridges may be successfully fed in winter. To this 

 end, some open frames in the form of inverted troughs 

 must be constructed (Fig. 27). They should be from i2ft. 

 to 1 5ft. in length, about i8in. or 2ft. high, and the ex- 

 tremities of the sides about ift. apart. Lath-wood is the 

 most suitable material to employ, and the shelters should 

 be roughly thatched with wheat or oat straw. The easiest 

 way of doing this is to employ a long, curved needle, and 

 to sew the thatching, as it were, on to the framework. The 

 ends of the thatching should be left loose, and should 



Fig. 2 7. -Section of Ridge-Shelter for 

 Partridges. 



