Shooting, Volumen1

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Horace Gordon Hutchinson
G. Newnes, Limited, 1903
 

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Página 129 - The late Mr. CJ Cornish, in Shooting, says: "I remember a case in which a mole made its run through the bottom of a nest (a very frequent cause of mischief where nests are not known of and looked at periodically). A good number of the eggs had disappeared down the hole, and after various attempts to stop the run had failed, I moved the nest over a yard away without the removal having any apparent effect on the bird
Página 2 - Any attempt to walk them up in brush covert is utterly hopeless, for they are exceedingly vigilant and go straight off like a dart, not more than six feet from the ground, far out of reach. A fight between two old cocks is a beautiful exhibition of activity and spirit. They spring up five or six feet in the air before striking, and such is their agility that the bird assailed hardly ever allows...
Página 175 - ... textbooks, except those for morals, Japanese history, and geography, and Japanese readers, may be selected by the local governor from among those which are copyrighted by the Department of Education, or adopted by the minister of state for education. The books excepted are prescribed by the government. A great advance has been made in the last few years in the matter of school equipment, and strict laws have been established as to the relative proportion of school grounds, school buildings, open-air...
Página 13 - ... world, is quite suited for outdoor life in our woods, if we may judge from the success attending its introduction in the United States. The Hon. Walter Rothschild says that in some parts of the United States it is as common a bird as is the VOL. ic common pheasant in England.
Página 2 - ... the ground, far out of reach. A fight between two old cocks is a beautiful exhibition of activity and spirit. They spring up five or six feet in the air before striking, and such is their agility that the bird assailed hardly ever allows himself to be struck : so much the better for him, for it will be observed that the legs are garnished with spurs as long and sharp as those of a Game Cock.
Página 2 - He is very shy and wild, difficult to approach, and takes to his legs long before other pheasants are conscious of any danger. His flight is prodigiously rapid and straight, and he will travel thirty miles on end, which, of course, is an objectionable practice, except in such extensive forest grounds as the highlands of Scotland present. These pheasants travel in troops of fifteen to twenty, and present a grand and bewildering effect when they rise in such a company.
Página 10 - ... other game preservers in this district, the race soon spread throughout the county. "From personal observation and inquiry, however," writes Mr. Stevenson, " during the last two or three years, it appears evidences of this cross, even in the coverts where these hybrids were most plentiful, are now scarcely perceptible; the strong characteristics of the Chinese bird apparently absorbing all the less marked, though darker tints of the Japanese.
Página 132 - I am of opinion that in the long run it is best not to attempt game-preserving on a large scale in a fox-hunting county, just as I think it is a mistake to try to start a pack of hounds in a good partridge county, a few hints as to the best way to protect the partridge from the fox may be of interest to some who, though all in favour of fox-hunting, like occasionally to take a gun out.
Página 290 - I knocked it down, and then went to try to kill it. I tried every way I knew, to no purpose, so I stabbed it in the head with my knife. Then it spit at me, and barked like a dog, and flew away with my knife...
Página 137 - ... equally to partridges as to pheasants. What has been said about supplying partridges with drinking fountains in very dry weather must be remembered in considering the question of gapes. Mr. Horace Hutchinson practically cured his estate at Newmarket of this disease by putting down numerous drinking fountains the moment dry weather set in after hatching time. Rabbits. — The constant change of blood, attention to the feeding capacities of the ground, and the avoidance of turnips as a food are...

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