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

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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

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Read Country Book
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781905124282
eBook ISBN
9781447487654

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Preface
  6. Contents
  7. Preliminary remarks
  8. Grouse
  9. The Pheasant
  10. The Partridge
  11. Mode of hatching the eggs of Pheasants or Partridges when the parent bird has been killed, or the nest forsaken by her; and also of rearing the young, with observations on the breeding of game in general
  12. Of Vermin
  13. The Wild Cat
  14. The Martern, or Martin
  15. The Polecat
  16. The Stoat
  17. The Weasel
  18. The Hedgehog
  19. The Snake and the Adder
  20. The Rat
  21. The Fox
  22. The Kite
  23. The Buzzard
  24. The Sparrow-Hawk
  25. The Hobby
  26. The Merlin
  27. The Kestrel
  28. The White Owl
  29. The Brown, or Wood Owl
  30. The Raven
  31. The Carrion Crow
  32. The Rook
  33. The Hooded, or Royston Crow
  34. The Jackdaw
  35. The Magpie
  36. The Jay
  37. The Starling
  38. The Gull
  39. The Heron
  40. The Coot and Water Hen
  41. Of Water Birds in general
  42. The Otter
  43. Trapping
  44. Observations on the use of Poison in the destruction of Vermin
  45. Hereditary Instinct
  46. Observations on Poaching, and on the means of preventing it
  47. The Game Laws
  48. Steel Man Traps
  49. Dog Spears
  50. General observations