Grouse disease : its cause and remedies / D.G.F. MacDonald.

  • Macdonald, Duncan George Forbes, 1823?-1884.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Grouse disease : its cause and remedies / D.G.F. MacDonald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SPORTING RENTS. amount, we do not consider it at all above the mark. We have already given examples of the great rise in this species of property which fifty or sixty years ago was regarded of little value in a monetary point of view. The shootings, deer-forests, and fishings in Ross-shire now amount to thirty-three thousand six hundred and ninety-one pounds annually. The sums placed opposite each of these descriptions of property and their total value must not, however, be regarded as absolutely correct. In several instances, shootings and deer-forests are valued together, while those unlet are not returned; but the sum of the three may be held as the beneficiary value derived by proprietors from the ferae natural on their estates. It must also be noticed that the fishings include river and sea- fishings rented for commercial purposes; so that a certain deduction must be made to arrive at what may be called the sporting rents, which may be estimated at thirty - three thousand pounds per annum. The proprietors retain in their own posses- sion—shootings, four hundred and thirty-five pounds; fishings, one thousand and forty-two pounds; deer- forests, three thousand six hundred and thirty-seven pounds—total, five thousand one hundred and four- teen pounds; while the main part is divided among one hundred and thirty-nine tenants, viz. eighty-seven shootings at fifteen thousand and twenty-nine pounds; thirty-two fishings at three thousand and twenty-eight