RABBITS IN ENGLAND
Poison gas is to be used by an English county council for the extermination of rabbits. Other councils may follow suit after seeing the re?alt of the experiment. Rabbits in England this summer are worrying farmers to a greater extent than for many years. Battalions o£. them are attacking crops, and it is estimated that their destructive activities may cost English agriculture millions of pounds. It is thought possible,- however, that a new form o£ employment will be created by organising rabbit catching on an cxtensivc*scale, for it has been, pointed out recently that, while rabI bits are becoming a pest in England, she is still importing' numbers of frozen rabbits from abroad for human j consumption.
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Evening Post, Issue 66, 15 September 1936, Page 5
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120RABBITS IN ENGLAND Evening Post, Issue 66, 15 September 1936, Page 5
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