so FARM VERMIN, HELPFUL AND HURTFOL. 



landlords, tenants and farmers. It is hoped that landlords 

 and game-preservers will not in future preserve unlimited 

 and unnecessary quantities of game, more especially ground 

 game ; that they will perceive — and many of them, it must 

 be admitted, have already done this — that in these years of 

 agricultural depression the landlord, the tenant, and the 

 labourer should join together in one common interest — 

 namely, to endeavour to work the land at a profit to each 

 class. Game-preservers, by preserving game unduly and 

 without restriction, in many cases beyond reason, hamper 

 and hinder the farmer in his vocation, add to the many 

 troubles to which he is subject, and raise up a spirit of 

 animosity and contention, and a desire, which has been 

 expressed in some instances, to totally abolish the Game 

 Laws. If game-preservers were to act fairly to the tenants, 

 and remember that their sport and pleasure frequently 

 interfere with the livelihood of others, numerous and great 

 heartburnings would be spared."^ 



On another point Miss Ormerod writes as follows : — " Another remarkable and 

 very unpleasant circumstance coincident with the great number of rabbits present on 

 the land, as well as LimncPiis, or water-snails, in the little grassy pools, was a 

 serious prevah>nce of liver-fluke in the sheep. The bailiff declared he ' never killed a 

 sheep with a soand liver.' How far he was correct in this sweeping statenient I cannot 

 tell, but so far as ' fluke ' being only too plentiful there was no doubt." — Editor. 



