The grouse in health and in disease : being the popular edition of the report of the committee of inquiry on grouse disease / edited by A.S. Leslie ; assited by A.E. Shipley.

  • Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease.
Date:
1912
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Credit: The grouse in health and in disease : being the popular edition of the report of the committee of inquiry on grouse disease / edited by A.S. Leslie ; assited by A.E. Shipley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Heather beetle—continued. types of heather attacked by, 378 f action on plant, 372 quantity to acreage, 373 records of damage by, 373-378 date of injury, 378 methods of search for, 372 analysis of heather samples, 373 life history, 382 incomplete, 386 influence of climate on, 378 „ of rainfall on, 378 moisture favourable to, 378 experiments with, 385 eaten by blackgame, 380 methods of destroying, 370 morphology, 383 f characters, 383 allied forms, 382 hibernation, 381 pairing, 386 Heather-burning, 20, 343 history of, 343 ff, 347 “ keeper’s delight,” 345 beneficial to both Grouse and sheep, 346 f sheep-farmers’ views, 346, 359 co-operation by shepherds, 359 in interests of landlord, 388 f ,, of shooting tenant, 388 f to destroy “ disease,” 238 ff, 265 to discourage heather beetle, 356,381 to provide food supply, 349 in interests of sport, 357 in strips, 353 ff „ large patches, 353 ff, 362 ,, small patches, 347, 353 ff, 362 rules, 348 ff labour required, 349 areas, apportionment of, 349 ff rotation of, 351 estimating, 349 example of scheme, 363 choice of rotation, 361 methods of burning, 354, 360 back-firing, 355 second burning, 355 treatment of steep faces, 355 of flow ground, 356 of north slopes, 356 of knolls, 356 of peat hags, 357 of “ grey ” heather, 356 of burns and streams, 357 of “ white grass,” 366 of “green ground,” 366 statutory seasons for, 357 Heather-burning—continued. “ Spring ” and “ Autumn,” 358, 401- 402 not after nesting begun, 434 Autumn burning, 358 ff periods of re-growth after, 361 f objections to, answered, 364 Hedgehog, as vermin, 408 Helminthiasis, see Tapeworms, etc. Hens old, uselessness of, 437 f Heterakis papillosa, in Grouse, 202 common worm in poultry and pheasants, 202 Hymenolepis microps (Small Tape - worm), 199 habitat duodenum, 167, 173, 199 numbers present, 199 difficult to detect, 199 associated with bacterial infection, 200, 219 seasonal prevalence, 199 intermediate host not discovered, 193, 200 Immigration of fresh stock, 441 f Incubation, effect of on weight, 36 period of, 14 Insects, as food, 101-104 parasitic, 184 ff as carriers of coccidian spores, 204 Intestine, small, 168 upper and lower portions, 168 habitat of large tapeworm (Davainea), 168 convolutions in, 169 Isolated moors, 444 Ixodes ricinus (Dog-tick), on Grouse, 191 as nymphs and lame, 191 causing acute skin disease, 150 Jackdaws, as vermin, 409 beneficial effect of reducing, 409 “Jugging,” 24 Kestrel, beneficial, 410 Kidneys, 177 “ Klein’s Disease,” see “ Disease ” Late shoots, 421 Leg-feathering, 44, 50, 52, 53 Leucocytozoon lovati, 204 life history, 204 Lice on Grouse, see Goniodes, Nirmus Liver, 167, 176 functions of, 169 post-mortem changes in, 176