RABBITS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10600, 8 March 1895, Page 3

RABBITS.

TO THE EDITOR,

Sib, Rabbits are by no means so numerous in Now Zealand, especially iu the North Island, ss they appear to be in parts of Australia. The enclosing of tanks and water-holes with rabbit-proof netting, of which you speak to-day, is, as you soy, of no great general value in this country ; but tho same principle may bo used. I have used it myself with some success. Tho vermin are fond of resorting to and playing about stacks; forty have been counted together round an inspector’s stack in my neighbourhood. If a detached stack, or even a cock or two of grain in the straw are rabbit-netted round in the manner you describe, the rabbits from some distance will find their way in. Rabbits are of socialistic tendencies, and where one has found plunder he will return again with the companions he can collect. It ia well then, for a n'ght or two, to leave the openings through the wire netting clear, and allow a return, Tho catch, when at last the openings are adjusted to admit of entrance, will probably bo much greater than if all the casual visitors were taken consecutively. Further, vestigia nulla, retrorsum, “ no footprints backwards leading,” ia ah adage attributed to the fox, but I have reason to believe it is appreciated by the rabbit.—l am, &«.,

J. C. ANDREW,