The Sportsman and Gamekeeper's Directory, and Complete Vermin Destroyer ; Containing Instructions for the Preservation of Game, Particularly During the Breeding Season. Of Hatching the Eggs of Pheasants & Partridges, and the Best Method of Rearing the Young. Also for Taking Or Killing All Kinds of Vermin, Particularly the Fox, the Cat, the Wild Cat, the Martern, the Pole Cat, the Stoat, and All Animals of the Weasel Tribe, and All Four-footed Vermin. Also Directions for Trapping and Destroying Kites, Buzzards, All Kinds of Hawks, Ravens, Owls, and All Predaceous Birds. Observations on Poaching ... Together with a Direct and Easy Mode of Extirpating Bugs, Fleas, Lice of All Kinds ...

The Sportsman and Gamekeeper's Directory, and Complete Vermin Destroyer ; Containing Instructions for the Preservation of Game, Particularly During the Breeding Season. Of Hatching the Eggs of Pheasants & Partridges, and the Best Method of Rearing the Young. Also for Taking Or Killing All Kinds of Vermin, Particularly the Fox, the Cat, the Wild Cat, the Martern, the Pole Cat, the Stoat, and All Animals of the Weasel Tribe, and All Four-footed Vermin. Also Directions for Trapping and Destroying Kites, Buzzards, All Kinds of Hawks, Ravens, Owls, and All Predaceous Birds. Observations on Poaching ... Together with a Direct and Easy Mode of Extirpating Bugs, Fleas, Lice of All Kinds ... PDF

Author: Thomas Burgeland Johnson

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Published: 1830

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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The Gamekeeper's Directory - Containing Instructions for the Preservation of Game, Destruction of Vermin and the Prevention of Poaching. (History of S

The Gamekeeper's Directory - Containing Instructions for the Preservation of Game, Destruction of Vermin and the Prevention of Poaching. (History of S PDF

Author: T. B. Johnson

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2013-01-08

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1447487656

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This important historical record of the ways of an early gamekeeper is extremely difficult to find in its original printing. First penned in 1820, it was revised, and then published by the author's son in 1851 as a second edition. Very few of either edition remain today. We are now republishing it using the original revised text. Its 200 pages detail the life and work of a keeper in the first half of the 19th century. Some 150 years on, the reader will find much of the contents and advice still remains relevant to gamekeepers and shooting men. The author offers his book as a "Practical book of instruction for the class to which it is particularly addressed, as well as to Sportsmen in general." Thirty-five concise chapters detail methods of preserving game, whilst advice is also given on controlling some thirty species of birds and mammals then considered vermin. Other chapters discuss: Trapping; Poisons; Hereditary Instinct; Observations on Poaching; The Game Laws; Steel Man Traps; Dog Spears; General Observation etc.

The Gamekeeper's Directory; Containing Instructions for the Preservation of Game, Destruction of Vermin, and the Prevention of Poaching, Etc. , Etc

The Gamekeeper's Directory; Containing Instructions for the Preservation of Game, Destruction of Vermin, and the Prevention of Poaching, Etc. , Etc PDF

Author: Thomas Burgeland Johnson

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781230248592

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... suffer the approach of the keeper. Therefore a hut formed of boughs and brushwood must be made within gunshot of the nest, so as to conceal a man with a gun. If only one person go into the cover where the nest may be, the old bird will fly away and continue sailing round the place so long as the man remains in the cover, and will not, until she sees him go completely away, return to the nest. But as birds have not the faculty of-counting, two persons must go into the wood towards the nest; one must remain, and the other retire, taking care that the old bird sees one leave the neighbourhood. She will return to her nest without suspicion the moment the man retiring is at what she considers a safe distance. The person remaining in the wood must have his gun bearing on the nest, so as to fire the moment she alights on the edge of it, or the opportunity will be lost. These remarks are equally applicable to the magpie and raven. OBSERVATIONS ON POACHING, AND ON THE MEANS OF PREVENTING IT. A Poacher generally exhibits external marks or characteristics of his profession; the suspicious leer of his hollow and sunken eyes, his pallid cheek, his wide, copious, and well-pocketed jacket--in fact, his appearance altogether is impressively at variance with that which is manifested hy any other class of the human species. He contracts habits of idleness to such a degree that he can scarcely ever persuade himself to work, even at that period of the year when there is no longer an illicit market open for the fruits of his noturnal depredations. As the month of September draws near he puts his tackle in order--he prepares his destructive net, and watches with unwearied perseverance the jucking of partridges. During the season of his culpable exertion, when...

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