A Guide to ANGLING, SHOOTING, HUNTING, COURSING, AND ALL OTHER LEADING AMUSEMENTS OF RURAL LIFE. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. BIBLIOTHECA AUC 1882 SODLEIANA London: WARD, LOCK AND CO., 268.c.big. UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME. 1. The Cow: A Complete Guide to Dairy Management, 2. How to Manage Poultry: Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, &c. 3. How to Choose and Manage a Farm Profitably. 4. Sheep, Pigs, Goats, Asses, and Mules. 5. How to Manage Corn and Root Crops. 6. The Horse, and How to Manage Him. 7. Kitchen and Flower Gardening, for Pleasure and Profit. 8. Bees, Rabbits, and Pigeons. 10. Trees, and How to Grow Them. II. Dogs and Cats. London: WARD, LOCK & CO., Salisbury Square, E.C. PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. To the lovers of country life and country sports we hope this volume will prove welcome. It has been compiled by an author practically acquainted with his subject, and he has done his best to give all necessary details connected with the healthful enjoyments of those who live in rural districts. Hunting, Coursing, Grouse shooting, Partridge shooting, Fly-fishing-indeed, every form of sport of any consequence has been treated of; and we place the work with confidence before all who know the interest and relish the excitement of those varied pursuits. The previous volumes of our "Country Life Series," to which this work belongs, have treated of rural occupations and the art of gaining a livelihood by rural labour; in this volume, however, the cares and anxieties of life are forgotten, and the reader is shown how to lay in a stock of health and good spirits by pursuing the adventures of flood and field. |