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Gamonia; Or, the Art of Preserving Game. and an Improved Method of Making Plantations and Covers, Explained and Illustrated

Gamonia; Or, the Art of Preserving Game. and an Improved Method of Making Plantations and Covers, Explained and Illustrated


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a much inferior crop; and raw moss, even when prepared, entirely fails. If light soils are planted at all, clay should be got out of the gutters, and thrown upon the beds. After it has fallen by the frost, it should be spread over them, and then the whole should be dug over and the clay turned underneath. The distance at which the cuttings should be set is in rows across the beds, two feet apart, the cuttings being eighteen inches from each other. It is better that they should not be cut the first year Unless they have been bitten by game, and in that case, one shoot, if entire, should be left. The cuttings would then be of little value, and another year's growth would give them strength. The second year's cuttings will be valuable, and they will be improving for some years to come. Jn about fourteen years they will begin to fall off, and their roots to decay; but they will last longer, perhaps about twenty years, if they are not cut every third or fourth year. The profit will not be the less, as the two years' crop will produce an equal weight as if cut each year, and they are full as saleable for wiskets of a heavier sort, and hampers for fishermen, of which there is a large demand at the Isle of Man. Willows are always ready sale in any large market town. The price when delivered on the spot is commonly about four pounds a ton From two to three tons an acre may be considered a fair average crop, when they are at their best. This is without their having had any peculiar advantage either by being kept clean or flooded. When this is done, they will far exceed that. It has been said that some on the banks of the river Trent near Newark, have fetched as high as fifteen pounds per acre, Hares and rabbits are extremely partial to a willow bed. Pheasants like one as affording s..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459095861
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459095863
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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