Coursing.

Bruce Herald, Volume x, Issue 957, 13 November 1877, Page 3

Coursing.

ii.t the late social meeting of the Aupkland Cbur'sing Cubj the Chaii-mati'' in purposing "The Farmers/ eaid ;— -'/ A good many people were antagonistic -j to hunting, and the hares came in for abuse, but he would remind them that hares were unsociable animals^ and never "got trbicfc in any place, arid any ' farmer : who could not support half aVdpgen hacps pould npt eupporfc a farin.r (Cheers.) They must be . menr.of very small minds. One farmed said .to; him that he could not. 'Buppqrt a "dog, w.hy he jsept so ajariy. -He ,said they cost too much. He was puzzled to know what men like this feed their men on. On what the dog pright to haye; he supposed,. (Cheers ) 4» to t^je hafe? datgagiog property, if anyone would ride pyer Pigeon \Moi»at : . farm, anil there was no place in .the couptry where hares were so thick, they would find that there was no better kept farm in thecountry. .■ (Cheers.) Another thing was that harea were' Bupposed to eat. up young forest trees. .'He had" himself planted a number of those, and had never ha 4 one of them? eaten or dejitcoyed by the hare^. The Ba'fl3e rpebpie' Bpme time" ago waged war, against; the sparrows, ■.{■bu.tuif ; -tn'ey vv^ere useful in clearing put iusec(g, and wh eri all the : in sec t8 werjp' got rid of th ey woujd then clear put the sparrows.