FARMERS AND THE RABBIT PROBLEM
ro THE EDITOH Sir,—The farmers, meeting at Ranfurly, discussed, among other subjects, the fact of their inability to destroy rabbits owing to the cost and the low price received for their wool. How much did they spend destroying rabbits when wool was is 6d a pound? Since the stations were cut up—and most interested people know the number of sheep they carried then—there has been very little summer rabbiting done in this district. It is plain that these farmers can not both run rabbits and sheep too, and then make public statements that are misleading, especially those made by men who know very well the truth—leaving politics aside. —I am, etc.. Difficulty.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23830, 9 June 1939, Page 15
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