. Game farming for profit and pleasure. A manual on the wild turkeys, grouse, quail or partridges, wild ducks and the introduced pheasants and gray partridges; with special reference to their food, habits, control of natural enemies and the best methods of preserving and breeding: including, also, an appendix on powder, loads, etc.. Game and game-birds. is the name given to the numerous enemies of game birds, by the EngHsh writers and game keepers. Captain Maxwell, in his book on Par- tridges, devotes a chapter to vermin and the methods of its control, and the English sporting magazines often
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. Game farming for profit and pleasure. A manual on the wild turkeys, grouse, quail or partridges, wild ducks and the introduced pheasants and gray partridges; with special reference to their food, habits, control of natural enemies and the best methods of preserving and breeding: including, also, an appendix on powder, loads, etc.. Game and game-birds. is the name given to the numerous enemies of game birds, by the EngHsh writers and game keepers. Captain Maxwell, in his book on Par- tridges, devotes a chapter to vermin and the methods of its control, and the English sporting magazines often give space to stories of the destruction of game by its enemies and the best means for preventing such loss. Until a few years ago the word vermin was not mentioned in our sport- ing literature, and few sportsmen realized the amount of game destroyed annually by predacious animals and the absolute necessity for controlling them if we would continue to shoot. Owen Jones, in "Ten Years of Game Keeping, " says: "Let the keeper look after the vermin and the game will look after itself, is a saying which has stood the test of time." Fryer, an authority on gray partridges, tells us the control of vermin "is an all important matter and one that affects the stock even more than the weather at hatching time." Macpherson, in his book on the grouse, says, it is necessary to supplement a good supply of food for the grouse by waging war against its four-footed and winged persecutors. Darwin believes that if shooting were stopped in England there would be less game than at present although hundreds of thousands of animals are annually shot. All naturalists are aware that a large number of the game birds and their eggs are destroyed by predacious animals every year, otherwise the game would soon overrun the earth. The tendency to increase is tremendous. It is 10. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enha