NEW ATTACK
BULLDOZER v. RABBITS Rabbit extermination with the use of a bulldozer has been tried out in New South Wales. A demonstration of the efficiency of this method was given recently on a paddock which before the war was dug out at a cost of £4OO by a team which took six months for the job. During the war the paddock become reinfested and quickly deteriorated to its original rabbit-stric-ken state. With the introduction of a bulldozer at a contract rate of 50s an hour the entire paddock was cleared out in a week at a cost of a little .under £l2O. As a result of the demonstration it was shown that a standard bulldozer could in two. hours completely destroy the tunnel system of a 300hole rabbit warren and return the churned soil to a fallow-like level. The same operation would be at least three weeks' work for two good men if employed on the old system of digging out.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 93, 12 February 1947, Page 5
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