Chasse, Élevage et Piégeage

Abstract

THE volume before us is one of a series dealing not only with subjects pertaining to agriculture in its proper and more restricted sense, but likewise with practically everything connected with country life which has any bearing at all on that pursuit. In the present instance, the subject of the trapping and snaring (piégeage) of animals, which, in the case of noxious species is, of course, a matter of considerable importance to the agriculturist, serves to establish a connection between sport (especially in the French sense of that term) on the one hand and agriculture on the other, and thus justifies the inclusion of the volume in the series. In connection with the subject of trapping and snaring, we may take occasion to remark that the agitation which has been set on foot in this country against traps of an unduly cruel nature (indeed, against “gin-traps” of all kinds) does not appear to have reached the other side of the Channel, or, at all events, does not seem to have had any effect there. For in the present volume there is a cut of an unfortunate falcon ensnared in one of the abominable pole-traps, without a word of condemnation of snares of that description (unnecessarily cruel from the fact that they are in many cases only visited at long intervals).

Chasse, Élevage et Piégeage.

By A. de Lesse. Encyclopédie Agricole. Pp. xii + 532; illustrated. (Paris: J. B. Baillière and Son, 1905.) Price 5 francs.