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feeding the sonrces of infection almost ‘by ^eometrica] ■:&■ ... 
progression, it very teifKt'bfe to tempt the birds to brtek up the packs. 9^- ^ 
as- much as po#s«rbfe-,.-i 5 r-nd this Is .largely helped by burning in, strips and _ 
patches., h hois hf-ni'been known that where the heather grows ,V,tt“ 
rather thS^dy the should be done in paitches of a quarter acre '■ ;;|P'. 
m near a« pos-^lfolv, . where it grows very thickly, in strips of twenty ■ 
to thirty md l&m as can foe conveniently managed, in order 
to obtain the' tot iu^d iredhig restdts. There is -an additional reason ' * ..„^p 
for this shown that the risk, of infection is . 
thereby ^ 
«uppiy reacts upon the grouse, and 
hence .it. H us^mlly make their appearance in JHpj 
the uptmt, of wiu«T., If the stock is healthy, bad weather , 
In iM' bjf 4 je-.#r 4 ’mi-mn fhms little harm, but the' health of the birds-' 'ilH 
depeiwb upon the quality of the food supply during the months ■ '-Syp’ 
oi. Fefof>,?.a4ry, ('fltu'ch. and .April. The state, of the heather at that period jA;. 
trepc.;vSd..» <,,.-dto .*7 moors, on two things: the -character ^of the previous ' 
nmMr^s, ^nd the mnoLint ot the stock of sheep. When t.his last is excessive, 
siUhOiigh' the weather may have been ideal, the. heather has no chance of 
■i>:#>s-chHg a mpplf good food, and a summary glance will tell at once 
v'h-at arf:. i,be pt<?;vaiiing conditions. Where 'there are too many sheep 
thtira can be no pr<»per bloom, and, consequently, no seeds. Unfortunately .''^K 
its fhe 'West F.iding of Vorkshire, in Lancashire, and in Westmorland, 
thousands of acre.* fall under this category , • ( 
.Fmd in m-aUinr, -—Whei-® the heather has fair play the winter food supply de.;- 
pends mt i I )-.good growth in the spring; (2) good bloom in the summer; <3). ~ 
gos>d m iim mmmn in the- preceding year; and when these conditions ■5’ i 
h;w ^ breeding stock may be left in the confident be- 
lidf rhm .fooalth'of .t.l>.c birds wib be good .in the foMowing spring. They' ’.' 
wO» ttmit b-s ftn ravages of the strohgyles, and rear large' ■ 
brocat>«-tiwgb M- .-a prolonged spell of hot dry -weather when • 
the chicks hntc.b imt< k'dasaiger of considerable, numbers succumbing !■'- 
to Mng favourable, to its development. ;.jj 
The chief .danger, liowever, m apprehended in the springtime is a ;.' 55 
prolonged late ,M! of i»w, when the grouse are laying, for 
then the nests -gei covert up, and I he hens cannot find them again, or ■, 
lust after the chicks Um , when tliey succumb to the cold and have , & 
difficulty in obtaining tod- There is not so much damage done by - f,*!' 
