RABBITS IN THE ORCHARD.
GBKAT LOSS IN OTAGO. The depredations of' rabbits ,among the frnit trees of OtagO Cciitral are more eerious than is generally imagined, ami for o numberof years isays the "Daily Times") orchardiste in somu ot tho dwtricts have been at their wits ends to ■inow how to protect their trees from tlie ravages of rabbits and liaree also.' Hare are even more destructive than rabbits, and are'credited with stripping - the' whole of the bark off .the trees as far up as the blanches, -l'.ubbits are just n»eifeotive in destroying the bark it tney ore not interrupted in their operations. Eoxburgh growers .havo somt time since discovered that a certain preventive agaiast this destruction of trees by rabbits is to" surround the trunk with an ordinary sheet of newspapet securely tied. The rabbit or hare, in nibbling at the trunk of the tree, causes the paper wapver to Tustle, and this apparently frightens the animal away.. Under ordinary circumstances a first wrapping will last for two or three years.. Tliis-rmedy was ■not discovered until an incalculable amount of harm had been done by the rabbit pest.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 807, 3 May 1910, Page 8
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189RABBITS IN THE ORCHARD. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 807, 3 May 1910, Page 8
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