STOATS AND WEASELS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18184, 22 September 1924, Page 11

STOATS AND WEASELS.

TO THE ESITOB. 0? "TKZ PRESS." fcuv—lu your paper of the loth inst., " nocr t-'ic above Uc.-tdiny;, I notice ■•■ criticism of a previous jink-lo vritfcou te" your Mfiylicld correspondent voider tno heading of "Pest;-/' Would it Iks asking too much of your

<-irterk)7> correspondent, that he accept. •is a fart, what ho has already read JwJer the. htarlin- "Pest*" ? It/is u.^1«S to.. s ,J Kesti that avfic ] d - s s j jato . merit on wr. 3^ls 1S not, a f.-f-t. This an ° ld ko perhaps Carterton <an now say ho ha a heard «> for tho firiti xuiio in ioi-t, v vf-nrs, instead of bom- •>'-> rudo .-js to contradict.. "\lanv u-ill D«ar oat what, your correspondent has already stated, and could fW to anyone who to c C< -., s „,i, a ro l ot weasels Stoat*, ferrets .jro weJl known to be nothing more t.n Mi common poachers, knowing no i.w, no dosed season?, .wl not, liko t.Qo poison, under restrictions. Wo nil Know that, bo is the natural enomv of tbo rafcbjt, as he also -is of all* the weak and innocent, of feather and fur, •'•"la it ho m turn. «ot. tbo upper hand •low arc .we, to doal.wifh him ? Perhaps ...pply to Carterton for a number of his blwviially-TTiarJo traps. ;,'\T\ 3 J aj \ Qc ? d ""'-respondent is quite justified m hnagin- fr >rward ]lis fante Jar it is well-known these richer;; are not over-energetic, and having-gorged themselves spend the heater part of p i£ lm< : - Blee P ln S, as does the ferret. by the time wc arrive at the one weasel fcr every rabbit, as Carterton would Digest, tto mlI find - r , i new m . dustry begun, and the ermine's cousin s skin in the shape of a fur coat, arlorning some fair person, to whom we will twice raise the hat. Trans are too plow, orag to_ the fact that it is a case of one trap one rabbit per dav, and the tune necessary attending to same, while if neglected,.our poaching weasel has been known to heJrJ himself during the trapper's absence. ' I would venture to say that were six ivdibite of even sex, and; six of the above poachers, also of even sex, liberated, each party m reach of the other, after the hrst rabbit has been killed, the others would evade the sleeping weasels, which would wake im when hungry, -and--on finding the rabbits gone, would wage war on the first innocent or the nearest fowl-run. I a JHm-os all 'round Europe, Asia., Africa., Australia and New Zealand, but wo notice that he still pi avs. a lone hand and regrets that-the last two mentioned places do not carry out liis ruling. TV by?— Tours, etc..' Mayfield, September IHtli. "• !