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movement, prove ample protection so long as the jacks are 

 kept going. They serve their purpose equally well 

 when used for partridge-broods. The rough sketch at 

 Fig. 60 will give a fair idea how the arrangement is 

 set up. 



Wherever it be possible, means more certain than any of 

 those described in the foregoing must be taken to exclude 

 foxes from game of tender 

 age. This will be necessary 

 in those districts where foxes 

 are preserved and fostered 

 and where it is, at the same 

 time, desired to rear birds. 

 As a rule, plain wire-netting, 

 unless very well kept up, 

 moderately new, and of con- 

 siderable height, does not 

 suffice to keep foxes out. 

 They soon become accustomed 

 to it when it is permanently 

 erected, and will use all 

 kinds of means to get through 

 or over it. Amongst those 

 which may be mentioned are 

 continuous jumping at the 

 wire to cause it to sag, so that they can clamber over, 

 and, where it has become at all brittle by age, by biting 

 and tearing at it so as to break through. Very few foxes 

 know how to climb effectually, and well and strongly set 

 up wire-netting 6ft. out of the ground, with strong four- 

 or six-strand steel wire run through it at 3ft. and along 

 the top, will stop them if it be provided with a device 

 such as I recommend. A single strand of strong wire 

 must be run along above the top of the netting, stretched 



Fig. 60. Lantern-Scare for 

 Foxes. 



