Ants for the English
The review of the Game Conservancy’s work for the year contains a report based on the findings of the partridge survival project on an estate on the South Downs near where I live in Sussex. This gives one much food for thought regarding the very necessary forms of nutriment that growing partridge chicks once enjoyed but, which, under modern methods of farming, are denied them. I have always, rightly or wrongly, considered myself a good partridge man, though my hand-rearing experiences have been limited to a few coops of English partridges, though more of red-legged. I always found the red-legged easier to rear, it being more enterprising, lively and independent. On our downlands
