RABBITS GALORE.
A:SOURCE OgINCOME. ''Thero lie goes; there's another I'M;"\Vhat ? Why, rabbits*, iarid:,a'nyr amqunij-iof them.,; . Riding'through: tipper Opaki a few days ago (writes.; our > .travelling correspondent). I saw rabbits darting here and thero, in 'and. out of tie scrub,, under logs, across tho grass,'"aiid 'making'themselves; generally in ■.very.'real.evidence. Aiid what is the reason?Chiefly that some settlers; have allowed the pest-to increase. 'In one holding of which I heard they got beyond control, nothing be; .ing'done, to keep them down,, with the in.'ovitable consequence that in the surrounding district they increased very rapidly. Trapping is being carried on vigorously in' some parts, with such .good results that the rabbits are much ■, less numerous. A ready market is found for the carcasses, and what threatened 'to become .'a scourge is now a source of income.'' A good deal ;of poisoning has ;beon carried out' as; well, in o'i'de'r to reduce the numbers... ;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2631, 5 August 1908, Page 3
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150RABBITS GALORE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2631, 5 August 1908, Page 3
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