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tlie web 'gets -feather rounder , 
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fermirj, ' ^rsged wrse he 3«ept down; 
hut-$%^. shmWM nsefutoess in- destroying 
The same plea caimot be 
^!.' ^fssfgelK^gv ^hlsjb. iisterestlng as it is, and useful for 
terrof wheyidt' finds a nest of eggs. It will also.-' 
n i^ny Ghldt-'H l^efbre they can -fly, and as it will tackle a. ^ 
. cope siiccessfuily with the parent grouse,- ' 
Js^-ie?i8er , hed^-k‘iga are no great frequenters of moors, being 
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ifn-,? -*On n^'^ny moorS).esj)ecbdly in the West Riding of York- 
■ jvtekiw of the , gihase-aetter is seen, It is Incredible the 
■ f.iw. ds,^y»f- tlseir i-uppUes, and. the far-reaching mis- ; 
ch-'M' d*^. The 'method is to erect nets ten feet high, in thirty feet- ' 
■ -;A-McVi. mmy i^Mmd tor two miles, and when grouse % Into them- , ■ 
iii^ ih^xximr iK^tween two poles usually fails to the gmind, enveloping : the 
w.hi.h'it tl'AO remaining lengths of the nets o;re left standing, 1 he object 
h the birds ahve, for-sale to, persons. possessed with the fallacious ,.| 
uim of i«lTOduch*g new .blood, or stocking some Mtherto -grottseless 
jVasid* aitd lor : s^e'h.-- pui'p-?3Stj^j^ tho bird^^scU readily from fifteen shillings 
to a gu.ijioa a brace, more.- For tMs purpose smalt .. ^ 
isf-e^vs «;vf moor a.r©- reBt^'-vE ^ which a.ire frequented ^ by 
im mmm wbich ^ mmmnty the' birds should 
;E 5 -^ i'e'i. ■(>r<^htr- to be ^ that there should 'i^ 
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i'sksc VC ^Mp tcr the birds have .-been' ^ 
i 'The P^mmrmn one such case wher«^.|^ 
the lOti ter smrmjnMsx^ moors to suehc| 
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an e^ifc^'tte nPrpm^:,pk^ 'my «cca; and om mom which' had easily :|- 
prodneed 2S0 ev^mch that durmg th^ last two years lhe v| 
nets were.set.in tfMr w'as but 4| brace and t06 brace.| 5 ^ 
The year the netth^- rose to 131 brace j'^two years^(| 
later It was -...173- .brace -ij- 249 showing that In ^ 
lour y#arsE time the its torm^^r productiyenesa^-IT^ 
was -aka Iduad ttet. aots .were ■ placed^ 
had' had very few negtS'.«^###>, ## caught in the nets Ead J 
averaged 'between four and byace. Such facts . speak for.^-' 
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