MONEY IN RABBITS.
SYSTEMATIC POISONING. SUCCESS IN KING COUNTRY. [BY TELECnA.rH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] TE KUITI. Tuesday. Tho profitablo nature of tho systematic poisoning of rabbits in tho King Country is demonstrated by two cases in this district. The.young son of a Maori farmer last month secured 1000 skins, which produced a cheque in the vicinity of £SO. In the second case a Maori living in the samo district averaged with strychnine 40 skins a night, representing an income of £2 a day. A catch of a different kind but also of a profitablo -nature was inado by a To Kawa farmer, who brought to the. Waitomn Acclimatisation Society a sack containing 360 pairs of hawks' legs, for which 6d a pair is pnid. This was the product of a few days' work with strychnine. The rather novel . method followed was to put a poisoned rabbit carcase on the top of a tall, wooden tripod attached to a fence to prevent the weight of the swooping hawks knocking it over. The farmer frequently came back after the absence of 10 minutes and found ten or a dozen hawks lying dead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 18
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189MONEY IN RABBITS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 18
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