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Title: The hunting field with horse and hound in America, the British Isles and France
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
Subjects: Hunting Fox hunting
Publisher: New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hunting horn and to take an active part in the chase. The wives of such gentlemen wear the colours and uniform as described for ladies, whether they follow the chase on horseback or by driving. The horn is of the style that is worn over the right shoulder and encircles the body, passing under the left arm, the tube passing nearly three times around the body. Before we proceed to show how the game is located and the chase itself is conducted, it will be necessary to know some-thing of the nature of the forest. Baron de Dorlodot owns some 30,000 acres of forest and rents the shooting and hunting privileges of about 10,000 acres more. The Forest of Senouches has, here and there, clearings, and the boar travels from one wood to another. The great diversity of the country lends animation to the sports. A large number of peasants are constantly employed in cutting off the timber. The system of forestry contemplates cutting over the whole tract in twenty-five years, that is to say, they begin on one side
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Hunting in France 285 of the forest and are twenty-five years cutting the timber fromit, when there is twenty-five years growth to begin with again.The clearings thus made take all the underbrush and smalltrees, leaving a large straight tree here and there to grow onfor another twenty-five years, or until it begins to show decay.This underbrush and twenty-five years growth of timber is cutoff close to the ground so that the portion recently cleared is We^f d

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