RABBIT BAIT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 17

RABBIT BAIT.

.■ ■;-■ ;Y»r . SUCCESS WITH APPLES. .'J> ' The following relating to the common ' '. ; acquaintance. of Nejv Zealand and Ans- . tralian farmers is from the Sydney "Tela- • ' ■graph":— ..- .. .' _... , . Very satisfactory official reports'.-ha'va.' - V been received in Melbourne as to '■*. ' ■.". oningof rabbits with.'apples and "stft ; cli T v ■ ' •. nine in the Cluncs district. ' '• . .Only one case of apples was,used, anS, the- rabbits wero found ..lying-dead :.in v alh . ■, r: directions. An instance:-is-.cited, as an; ... V' illustration of what can bb 'achieved; with". this- method. . After ;thfe._.n£yivjojis'(;ntug. .; 'v operation was caTried. out 20:. ' . ■ - apples left, and thesi result that ;300 though, stwenty; * ■ touched.. '" \ .v. l ". r\l\ 'f f v V : ; dried l ", ( .wJipn" th?y , > : G*i:(;:-'r<'^irei>cd':nij : sng£ r, V-, ' liqXia':^Si2l#iA<.^MiHiWw9,Si^^A' v rabbits;...'. V • {■, ' .i U-i •■■'"■■■;•»•>'t 7i'. . , ■ ■,: . .'- l '' ,' . :,V/ ."M.' U,'fprtlj A^iiipawa:^ .; .y'v 'Y/vY-V/r.i 1]- '. ;-l-V Iwifcli ■ clay." sub-stiil.'ieontaimifg >'si' -aerea.V ■' ■■ ~: 'has 5 ••••_ ira^ngdfds.'.v^or^lXA'}^?^ averaging; 'from'* 25' acre.';". ••• jt' y '' . responiieiit'-of j th()- .. "S. • . • 'makihg;''!irid X and ..the grain".Uar;i:est, Ou .-'.thb '.thisyear a goodjniaiiyvspeiit ''the holiday; 'week, oh- the' whirring- bilvder,V.^r.;fqUpwsjl. ( ■ it .'from: early: *moi-iiiij'g'/till'i 1 atQ-rrit" 'atobkirigVthe ;. .The' crops are a : on* . iwh'olo,- and with'.ffW' ; than average ..-yieldi'v.• ! about 70 bushels an acre. Tb.e hops <!o . not promise much so far, mcftt of tlieni'looking a 65' pec cent, crop at present.