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of fox hunting and shooting; but there is a 
other, and even more important side to the que 
tion of “Foxes and Pheasants.” If both crei 
ures are to be preserved in the same neighbc 
hood it will not do to allow each of them 
struggle for existence under the old happy-g 
lucky methods of procedure. Neither of the 
left to take its chance is likely to do very we 
although if the law that naturally favors t 
survival of the fittest were allowed to pursue 
course, the fox would undoubtedly have the b: 
of it. But if the pheasant has enemies, so b 
the fox, for it cannot be pretended, that 1j 
crime of vulpicide, even in fox hunting cot- 
tries, is entirely unknown. Foxes, therefore, s 
well as pheasants, have to be preserved, andi 
the preservation on each side be fairly do, 
both will provide sport in the same district wij- 
out interfering unduly the one with the otb 
One way of keeping pheasants and foxes - 
the same covert has been tried more than o:i 
and has invariably ended in disaster. It i‘j; 
favorite method with certain game keepers wi 
while anxious to keep up their reputations : 
being able to show a fox when required, |i 
equally anxious to avoid losses among tit 
birds. The modus operandi is simple and ci 
sists simply of shooting the vixen in the spi; 
so soon as her cubs are big enough to feed th 1 
selves, and removing the latter from the e; 
to a wired-in inclosure. The little prisoners ■ 
fed on rabbits and small birds, which the kef,: 
supplies until his pheasants are full grown, w: 
the foxes are released. Confinement and t 
quarters tend invariably toward an outbreak 
mange, and the foxes, once liberated, carr 
all over the country. The recent outbreaks 
this fell disease in Sussex and Kent, and a i 
earlier date in Berkshire, were traced to 1 
ill-advised habit of trying to keep foxes in 1 
fined quarters under unhealthy conditions. 
But that it is possible to maintain a good 1 ; 
of foxes and a large number of pheasants 1 
single estate has been amply demonstrated 1 
ing this and last season on the property of 5 
George Cooper, at Hursley. Sir George, 1 
by the way, is the new master of the Huie 
has always been a preserver of foxes as ‘1 
as of pheasants on a somewhat extensive <1 
This year, for instance, he has had five l:e 
of cubs on his 6,000 acres and has turned o 
some 12,000 pheasants. His keeper has stii 
the Fox vs. Pheasant problem in all its ph 
and finds that one of the best safeguards ati 
vulpine ravages is plenty of rabbits. The 
a large warren at Hursley where as mat 
25,000 rabbits have been killed in a .seasorl 
elsewhere on the estate hares are the more ) 
mon form of ground game. Young rabbit a 
leverets are easily caught and their lives an 
sacrificed in vain when they save, as the. 1 
doubtedly do, the more valuable lives of st 
pheasants. 
Foxes are not nearly so troublesome with' 
pheasants when nesting as with partridge 
is the vixens that do the chief damage '1 
their cubs begin to make heavy demands^] 
their resources, but this does not occur 1 
most of the pheasants are off their eggs, f 
tridges, which hatch later, bear the brunt 
foxes’ depredations. At the same time, •! 
ciallv when they are late in hatching, it 
visable to protect pheasants on their nests. 1 
can best he done by stretching strands c 
wire about each nest a few inches fro 
ground. If the nest be in a hedge it is G 
plan to strain the wire at right angles ^ 
latter, carrying it right through the her; 
each side of the nest. The fox, nosing h 
along the hedge, will come in contact w:i 
wire and receive a shock that will mat 
avoid that particular spot in the future, i 
time he meets with a similar obstruction 
anxietv will he to get away from what 1 
sihly believes to he a trap. Another goo I 
though it entails trouble, is to remove tt 
of wild pheasants as they are laid, subs 1 
“dummies” in their places. The fox maff 
and kill the bird, hut her eggs will be saf- 
There are many other ways of protects 
pheasants from the ravages of foxes 1 
the nesting season and at a later date, n 
that the bringing up of pheasants by hart 
