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Northern Advocate, 16 July 1921, Page 5

The danger so often attending the effort to destroy an animal pest by a too free resort to the services of one of its natural enemies has had a further exemplification dn the u?e of the cat to exterminate the rabbit (says the "Soijth ■.Australian Register"). Tho transport of cats> by the trufk-load to the interior for this purpose some yearsago, has had the familiar result that

the antidote has become as mischievous as ithe banc, and, if anything, more. While the rabbit ate the food of the sheep, the cat, left to run wild, has been playing havoc among the flocks by devouring lambs, and where possible extending, its ravages »to fowls reared on the stations. Bunning wild tho cats grow to an enormous size, and. will sometimes weigh as much as 201b, an .1 their daring and ferocity grow with ithcir physical strength, so thai they will often hunt their prcv in broad daylight. The expedition of the Aus ; tralian Ornithologists' Union, when camped on the Capricorn Islands, found that wild cuts were doing- fearful slaughter among' the turtle-*. The pest may 'not breed as fast ;is the rabbit, but unless chocked it may become as great a national evil.*