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GROWING GOLD. 



Frequent complaints have been made of 

 the want of flavor in the venison, which may 

 in some measure be accounted for. The 

 keepers in the winter catch all the bucks* 

 which they have to kill in the summer, and 

 put them into paddocks to fatten, which they 

 do by lying quiet, but they are compelled to 

 subsist upon a coarse kind of grass without 

 variety, unless it is some expensive artificial 

 food. But they are in this manner much 

 MORE EASILY KILLED than whcu ranging in 

 a large park, selecting the sweetest and best 

 herbage of all kinds. Were it not intruding 

 too much on the duties of the inspector, a 

 few additional hints could be offered to the 

 rangers on this subject, to show that some 

 improvement may probably be made in the 

 flavor of the venison. It is admitted that 

 there are good and bad farmers, and also 

 superior systems of managing parks ; a brief 

 statement of the prevailing errors now prac- 

 tised would prove the folly of them, and the 

 advantages of the best method, in a striking 



* This is done in a very bungling manner. 



