The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . rs interestsare necessarily his first consideration, he can lookafter them, and at the same time act fairlytowards the tenant farmer. It is all a matterof tact, which some men possess and others donot, but the gamekeeper who goes out of his wayto upset the farmers on his beat is a fool in hisown interests. We have known keepers who, for-getting they were servants, carried such a highhand amongst the tenants and were guilty of suchacts of tyranny, that the farmers rose in a body in revolt, and a well-deserved months notice wasthe result. On the o
The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . rs interestsare necessarily his first consideration, he can lookafter them, and at the same time act fairlytowards the tenant farmer. It is all a matterof tact, which some men possess and others donot, but the gamekeeper who goes out of his wayto upset the farmers on his beat is a fool in hisown interests. We have known keepers who, for-getting they were servants, carried such a highhand amongst the tenants and were guilty of suchacts of tyranny, that the farmers rose in a body in revolt, and a well-deserved months notice wasthe result. On the other hand, when a game-keeper is tactful and understands the law of giveand take, he generally receives help and co-opera-tion from the farmers on his beat, who have ampleopportunities of being of assistance to the far as the proprietor of the shoot is concerned,be he resident or only a tenant, it is to his intereststhat the relationship between himself and thefarmers, through his keeper, should be of a friendlyand amicable CUTTING THE GRASS. THOUGH beekeeping is nota leading industry in thisof Honey. country it is one of some import-ance, and beekeepers are com-plaining about the bad season and its effect on theharvest of honey. Back in the early part of thesummer we heard agriculturists complaining thatthey had never had any swarms, and the grumblenow is about the shortage of honey and Cornwall, which is described as the beegarden of England, we hear accounts about thepoor returns obtained from the bees, and theseason is said to have been the most disastrous inthe memory of the oldest beekeeper in the is not much likelihood of any improvementnow, and those good people who depend on beesas a source of income must necessarily suffer. After all, however, this un-satisfactory state of affairs isnot surprising, as the weatherconditions were too depressingfor even the busy bee at thetime when the blossoms fromwhich most of the nectar isob
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