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GAME FARMS. 
As usual, wc see in all that concerns the pro¬ 
duction and preservation of game a marked 
difference between the methods in vogue in 
England and the sister countries, and those—■. 
if any,there be—peculiar to Ireland. I say “as 
usual, by which I mean there is nothing out 
of the common in all this; we merely see two 
conditions before us, how to do it and' how not 
to do it. We in Ireland seem to have a liking 
for the last-named; our friends across the water 
prefer ways and means that lead to success. 
A scamper through Ireland and another 
through England and Wales shows this fully; 
it is not necessary to extend your journey 
north of the Tweed, but you can do so if you 
like, and you will thereby secure additional tes¬ 
timony to the mass of evidence already ob¬ 
tained, showing conclusively the state of 
lethargy we are in in Ireland, and how spruce 
and up-to-date our neighbors of the 'other side 
are. 
Now, among the rural industries of England 
must be included game farming—chiefly, I ad¬ 
mit, in the shape of pheasant rearing, but not 
exclusively so. England comes first, but gal- 
lant little Wales has two or three flourishing 
game farms; Scotland has some too—I don’t 
know how many—but I do know that Ireland 
has none. Though I did not start out to dis¬ 
cuss piscatorial matters, I may just here re¬ 
mark that there are plenty of “fish farms” (if 
I may coin an expression for once) in England 
also, all serving, like the game farms, a useful 
purpose, and all likewise good paying ventures 
from a commercial point of view. Failures are 
not understood by our Saxon neighbors, and 
they see to it that such disappointments do not 
come to them. 
Some time ago an expert in pisciculture 
and piscatorial matters generally paid a flying 
\ lsit to Ireland, and had a look at the country’s 
inland fisheries and angling resorts. In subse¬ 
quent interviews and correspondence which I 
had with him, he said he had seen no country 
like Ireland for an angling paradise, but that 
all our rivers and lakes needed restocking by 
the introduction of new blood, and so on. As 
an expert, and living by the practice of his 
ca.ling as a pisciculturist, he proposed to stay 
a short time in this country, interview the 
riparian and other fishery owners, and offer 
his services. In making this offer he was only 
doing what he had so successfully done in the 
sister countries. But he didn’t know Ireland 
nor her sons, the last-named were interested, 
said it ought to be so, quite approved of the 
project, but not a man in Ulster, Munster, 
Leinster, or Connaught would take him by the 
hand and authorize him to make an effort to 
put our lakes and rivers in trim in the interests 
of Irish anglers. So he shook the dust, or 
rather mud, froni his feet, returned whence he 
came, and continued the good work among 
those capable of understanding and appreciating 
it at its right value. Here, then, is a fair 
sample of how not to do things, and it aptly 
applies to ourselves in old Ireland. The gen- 
eral result is to be seen when we compare a 
mile of the Liffey, Lee, Boyne, or Blackwater 
with a mile of the Itchin, Test, Wye or Der¬ 
went. Personally, I have fished the whole 
eight of them, and the less said about the first 
tour—in comparison with the last four—the 
better. 
. However, to return to game farms, flourish- 
mg institutions every one of them, which would 
hardly be the case if they did not cater for a 
well-established demand, we find them scattered 
over England principally, with here and there 
r t R m ^ aleS , and ScotIa nd, and all paying up 
o the hilt. Among the many I have from time 
time visited is one in Hampshire, so well 
tTir) Wn i 3S SCarcely to ? eed na ming. As already 
u 1iv P l’ e f a a ntS u are Chief game bird s ac- 
tually reared, but other game is to be had 
esta°te g N % agencies. At all events, many an 
vS a g ° ing ’ many a depIeted one is reno- 
vated, and many a “shot out” property re- 
stocked by such institutions, or, if you prefer 
talhv e n/h a p f art >cular, through their instrumen¬ 
tality, other factors being called upon to help 
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