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    Fox Coverts and Earth Stopping - With a Note on Game Preservation
    Fox Coverts and Earth Stopping - With a Note on Game Preservation
    Fox Coverts and Earth Stopping - With a Note on Game Preservation
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    Fox Coverts and Earth Stopping - With a Note on Game Preservation

    By Anon Anon

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    The art of earth stopping is essential to good sport on a fox hunt, this concise guide is perfect for anybody looking to make artificial earths for a fox.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 13, 2016
    ISBN9781473356535
    Fox Coverts and Earth Stopping - With a Note on Game Preservation

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      Fox Coverts and Earth Stopping - With a Note on Game Preservation - Anon Anon

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      ON EARTH STOPPERS, EARTH STOPPING, AND ARTIFICIAL EARTHS

      IN olden days nearly every pack had their earth stopper. Old prints show him with a hurricane lantern, one or two varminty terriers, a spade and an old pony to do his rounds. His job was to ride over whatever part of the country was due to be hunted on the next day, and then to stop up the earths in the vicinity.

      This naturally had to be done at night, when foxes are out on the prowl. The terriers would mark an earth or say not at home, just as a good terrier will do out ferreting. If the fox was in, the terrier went in and bolted him. In either case the earth was then stopped in the approved style.

      Stopping without a terrier often entails a risk of a fox being stopped in, and that is one reason why a terrier is so invaluable.

      In many instances the earth stopper acted as terrier man to the pack as well.

      Grantham, earth stopper to the HOLDERNESS hounds for over forty years, tells some amusing stories of his terriers, some of which will be found in the section dealing with the Holderness hunt. His services have been in request all over England to demonstrate the best methods of making artificial earths.

      Nowadays stopping is mostly done by gamekeepers.

      Mr. Charles MacNeil, M.F.H., in the hunting volume of British Sports and Sportsmen, gave some very sound instructions on the subject, which I reproduce verbatim by permission.

      This is one of the greatest difficulties amongst many others that an M.F.H. has to contend with. No matter how much trouble he takes, places will be left open, and new places are continually being discovered that nobody apparently knew about which let a fox underground, and after a dry summer this state of things is worse than at any other time. I do not approve of breeding earths being permanently stopped, then all other places should be, but if you permanently stop for the season a big set of earths, every fox in the county finds this out, and you lose the chance of making a fine point. There is no inducement for a fox to travel unless he thinks that he can get in, so there is nothing left for him to do but to run in circles round home, hoping to throw his pursuers off.

      Earths should always be stopped with good faggots, tightly tied round with wire, and a good stake through the middle with a hook at the end, so that the faggots can easily be pulled out when unstopping. Moreover, a faggot stopped earth will generally keep a badger out, as they are not so likely to scratch in as when spade stopped; but all stoppers prefer the spade, for the simple reason that a fox can scratch out or in and re-open them, thereby saving the keeper or stopper the trouble of turning out on a hunting evening to unstop.

      Casual places, by which I mean rabbit burrows, etc., where a keeper has known a vixen

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