Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1889 — Sport in Scotland. [ARTICLE]

Sport in Scotland.

The value to Scotland of the opportunities for sport is very large. The deer forests, of which there are IQO, covering 8,000 square miles of land useless for agriculture, rent for £IOO, - 000 annually. Twelve thousand five hundred pounds of this goes to the local taxes. If any forest fails to be rented the whole neighborhood feels it greatly in the diminished amount of money expended there. The grouse moors rent for £440,00 and p y £5,000 in taxes. Most salmon rivers are let with the moors, but some lire rented alone and add a considerable sum to the total already given.