The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-02-14 00:00:00

justice .
to fame. Yet
ich wilful or unwitting
4 much heedless indifference
'mount for this,
d disposition P'
we
and

mon- arch
-: from r

and .
of honour

society; and
1 in anon-
after all

be said generally
their tenants in
, in ()erten quarts'
ce of their rights
4) their grievances. ro
beyond the variety of natural
found in humanity,
`o a life of ease
the arrogance
sometimes to ai
^.l of collegiate
, want of ,
businesg,
a v

landlord*
there Y'

quarters,
"- and

ignorance
to

if we go
__— and tempera-
ment to be may trace its source
sometimes to a ease tr..- selfish gratification,
sometimes to f' ince and conceit of high birth
and position, L. to an overweening estimate of
the qualifications . giate training and associations,
but oftener to • . of practical knowledge and
acquaintance with b. es, to bad advisers and false
representations, to a weak end prejudiced judgment, t
viCao[ls practices and spendthrift habits, to dishonest
principles and a bad heart.
I know that it is possible to have plenty of shooting
of the higher classes of p.m. on manors adapted to the
without much injury to the occupation of the
111133°8e-
. - we days some gentlemen are satisfied
.of gluttony. Such lathe fashion of
*, glory of the sport is the enormity of
and, inverting the order, everything is to
to the number of the hecatombs. To
of game, the vermin must be
or they must be fed with plenty
^•ii have a sneaking kindness to
and keepers know that it is
such food than to extripate
artificially. In such cases as
of game would also preserve a
should be the *-rs as well
' or ref • mere
are

Bus in these
uottibig short
day the; the
slaughter, am,
samideed to
sustain such s head
thoroughly destroyed, --
of rabbits. But gentlemen
a certain species of vermin,
easier to supply them with
-, or to feed them
,t the preservers ,
conscience, tb-

with
the t,
the
be

them, or
this if the
clear

they
the

occupiers
should be

C 9.8011 of minor
'- gentlemen

are T3WI
and bare§

.8 fellow
aril is e

,i, Ana
, of long
of that

or in
elect only to
o around their
over the rest.
reserve

: the plea of
The terms
darkness is
- dawned,
land their
Instead of
tenantry,
for fair

from
forest ; from the - swoop of the falcon; from the out-
paced bare, and from the sudden arrest in mid oareer of
the pheasant, the woodcock, and the grouse. Thus may
we trace the history of that instinct which, pervading
the whole hum= family, in highly civilized countries,
resolves Itself into its most advanced and refined form
in the formation of game preserves. So various are the
professed objects and purposes of lauded possessions
that it fa scarcely to be wondered at if some injury
should be done to those parties whose interests are
involved. The wonder rather Is that, considering the
strength of this sporting ambition. (and that in the
present state of human nature, the abuse of power Is
almost insuperable from the possession of it) no more
injustice is clone than that which is suffered by them.
Much of the forbearance and fairness of landholders
towards their tenantry is doubtless attributable to the
sound and equal constitutional government -4 laws
under wineh we live; much to the high sense
which prevails amongst the higherclasses,of
much also to the force of ptiv opinion
lightened condition of the v• But
that -

-e OWIIOIII _ land, or rent .
nominal consideration. There are other
account in which the preservers are elderly
and cannot manage the winged game, or they a.
shots and require short ranges, and rabbits and ha.
answer their purpose best. Many large landholders
have their property situate in different counties
different parts of the same county, who
reserve the right of sporting on the lands
seats, their tenants having the shooting ove.
Others, a few, more needy or more parsimonious,
the sporting over all their estates, and by letting it get
• double rental, or at least take their rental for the
same lands in two parte. In all cases let game pre-
servers remember that the game animist on the seine
prodnota as the sheep and cattle, and in most cases take
tithe of the corn which the farmer has bargained to sell
to the miller and waster. If the squire would sustair
his live stock on his own produce, as the farmer do(
his, or by food paid for out of his own pocket, the
would be little pound of complaint. But he not tr
does no inch thing, but he promises his tenant that
game shall do him no appreciable harm, and then r
his tenant complains of sba hordes of hares and rsi
be calla him a captior (r, 'turns him out
farm. I know the standing; it
found In the residuum dark feud al
which made lords tyrants, and fearees slays&
not game preservers shelter themselves under
hereditary privileges and traditional usages.
are altered, the times have changed, the
passed, and the day of a nation's power has
slavery is abolished, and work and scienoe demand
due reward. Landlords take their thousands ins'
their hundreds, and a bustling interprising
that ham doubled the value of then land, asks
treatment and consideration.
If you ask me to go into particulars in estimating the
material injury done by hares and rabbits, I have no
exact rule ; but probably ft may be taken thus, that