THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
In 1905 the guns were : Mr S. Gurney Buxton, Mr O. S. Curtis, 
Lord Granworth, Hon. J. Dawnay, Mr R. H. Rimington Wilson, Mr A. C. 
Fountaine, Mr R. Heywood, and the host, Mr H. Birkbeck. 
WITCHINGHAM, NORFOLK 
On this estate belonging to Mr W. Barry we have an excellent example 
of the reward which attends good keepering and intelligent supervision. 
Before Mr Barry bought this property, a few years ago, the best 
day was about seventy-eight brace. Mr Barry determined to give up 
rearing pheasants, and to concentrate his keepers’ work on vermin killing 
and looking after the partridges’ nests, changing the eggs, etc. At the 
end of four years the following result was obtained : 
Pheasants Partridges Pigeons Hares Rabbits 
1905. Oct. 7 . 56 . 915 . 2 . 31 . 5 
„ Oct. 8 . 36 . 888 . 1 . 6 .2 
Guns : Lord Ernest Hamilton, Lord Elphinstone, Mr J. D. Cobbold, 
Mr J. F. Mason, Gapt. G. Tryon, Sir Ailwyn Fellowes and Mr W. Barry. 
The above are a few instances in various counties of the success 
which attends careful preservation. There are of course many other 
places where equal success has been or is being attained ; notably in 
Scotland where, on the Duke of Roxburgh’s estate, an average of 220 
brace per day has been obtained. In Somersetshire, which is not 
generally considered a partridge country. Lord St. Audries has killed 
over 500 brace in three days’ driving, and about the same number 
walking up on the outside beats, where the fields are too small for 
driving purposes. 
A. AGLAND HOOD. 
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