The hunting of the woodcock and its future.
Anecdotes on the quantities of woodcock observed and collected in the past.
-
1788 It is not uncommon at the beginning of the arrival of woodcock, to meet some days up to forty, fifty and more, in a small wooden canton.
-
1791 In the Methodical Encyclopedia. Woodcock like valleys and willingly diverting the path they first took, leaving the woods, to come and get there. There are such of these passages, or it happens to see twelve or fifteen in the space of half an hour on the lookout.
1831 In the journal of 1840, an article mentions an anecdote. In 1831 there were so many woodcock that they were sold for a penny at the market, this is positive the garrison of Pontivy (Morbihan) ate woodcock salmis with an accompaniment of potatoes. These virtuous herders cooked huge pots of it, which made a pleasant diversion from the classic boiled beef and mutton bean.
1846 Dictionary of forests and hunting. The hunt for in the past, this hunting is done in the dark and requires only half an hour of occupation, it costs little and makes a lot of profit. Some individuals are caught there up to eight hundred woodcock per year.
1855 Adolphe D'houdetot .
I did not believe in these giblets, these woodcock butchers before I attended them in person. In Brittany, in Normandy, only a few leagues from the sea, in small scattered woods, I saw 150 woodcock killed in a single day by three hunters.
Adolphe D'houdetot, journalist, writer and hunter, has published numerous books on hunting.
1799 - 1869
Today, some people no longer have the limit to obtain the latest technologies to facilitate direct debits.
We wish to these latter inform them that their ancestors were aware that taking too much already presented a danger for the sustainable management of a species.
1867 Extract from a book from 1867.
The ordinance of 1578, those of 1600 ..... 1601 and 1607 absolutely condemn the use of sleeping dogs * in hunting, order to put to dead in all places the sleeping dogs * and pronounce, in case of contravention, pecuniary penalties which will be doubled and tripled, if there is a recurrence, and to which are added for common delinquents, the yards and banishment.
The use of sleeping dogs is strictly and expressly forbidden by this article, because this hunt is cook.
At the end of the 18th century this hunting was tolerated, without having been allowed regularly. sleeping dog, was once , the name given to dog stop ..
