Our forests and woodlands . Ihave perhaps used unduly strong language in speak-ing of rabbits as if they are merely glorified this they certainly are from the foresterspoint of view. And the farmer can also hardlyfail to class them as destructive pests whereverthey occur in any large number, as they soon doif not kept well in check by shooting and such statistics are known to me, but it wouldbe interesting to know how many rabbits one acreof ordinary grass land can support even without such data, one can easily under-stand that the onFy innocuous way of
Our forests and woodlands . Ihave perhaps used unduly strong language in speak-ing of rabbits as if they are merely glorified this they certainly are from the foresterspoint of view. And the farmer can also hardlyfail to class them as destructive pests whereverthey occur in any large number, as they soon doif not kept well in check by shooting and such statistics are known to me, but it wouldbe interesting to know how many rabbits one acreof ordinary grass land can support even without such data, one can easily under-stand that the onFy innocuous way of raisingrabbits for sport is to confine them within properlyenclosed warrens, from which escape should notbe permitted. It is only thus that any land-owner fond of rabbit-shooting can provide sport 318 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS of this sort for himself and his friends at hisown proper expense, without prejudice to histenants and injury to all the neighbouring land-owners whose woods or fields march with hisrabbit CHAPTER XIThe Improvement of British Forestry^ Treated for the most part as coverts, game-preserves, and pleasure-grounds, neither the Crownforests nor the private woodlands of Britain canbe expected to give the returns they would yieldunder better management. Even in cases wheretimber is grown as an investment, the plantationsare as a general rule considerably understocked,often through having been formed at too widedistances to begin with, and then thinned whenthey were just beginning to remedy by naturalmeans this initial defect; while not infrequentlythe wrong kinds of trees have been selected forgrowing to the best advantage on the given landand in the particular locality. It does not follow ^ See also the introductory Preface. 319 320 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS that because good results are obtained in onelocality, equally good results will be obtainablefrom the same tree in quite a different partof the country. Allowances must be made forclimatic condi
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