a distinct improvement to the grazing; but in Austrian deer forests I have repeatedly found that the most favourite grassing places for deer were those which had been fed the hardest during the summer by cattle, due, no doubt, to the sweeter pasture caused by the manuring of the ground for very long periods. Even before the cheese-makers had left the ground, stags would frequently be found within hearing distance of their voices. Elk, which are much more solitary animals than deer, I have seen in Norway very close to where cattle were grazing, and as long as the cattle are under the care of foresters or persons in the employ of the sporting owner or tenants, I clo not think there would be the same objection to their presence on the ground, even during the early part of the stalking season, as there is to sheep. Old wedders will wander away to the summits and lie in the very places most frequented by stags in the hot weather, but Jhis is not the case with cattle*
The following particulars arc extracted from Appendix IX. of the report:
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These numbers will doubtless seem to those who have no experience of
the climate of the deer forest from November till May very trifling, but
the very low rateable value of these forests is the best indication of how
small is the agricultural value of the land, and how large are the outlays
which have been made in the past by owners to lit them for grazing or
sporting tenancies. The only case in which the grazing value of a forest
seems to have been really utilised to its full extent is the Earl of Ancaster’s
forest of Glcnartney, which on account of its low elevation, excellent
grazing, and isolation from other door forests, is more like a large enclosed
deer park, and such stalking as it affords would hardly attract people
who know what real deer-stalking is.
Norwegians would no doubt make much more use of such grazing as the deer forests afford, and would make a living where West Highlanders or Hebrideans would starve, as they did starve in the old days unless they emigrated, or were bold enough and strong enough to plunder their weaker and less warlike neighbours* Norwegians are more industri¬ ous^ and have realised by long experience that the attempt to keep several families on a farm which will not feed more than one is as ruinous to the
