RABBITS IN AUSTRALIA
TREMENDOUS DESTRUCTION
DEPREDATIONS IN MALLEE
BENDIGO (Vic.), Fob. 24
According to a statement made by the Chief Commissioner of Railways. Mr Clapp, when he was passing through Bendigo 10-day, after his northern tour, the depredations or rabbits in the Malice farming areas have been most serious. Mr Clapp said he had never seen such destruction by rabbits, especially at the tar end of the Robinvale line. The pest had been so troublesome this season that it was a common saying among farmers that “Wo get half, of our crops and the rabbits get the other half.”
Some farmers had censed harvesting at night, and returned the next morning to find that the rabbits had taken .drips out of the crop us though a machine cut had been made in it. Evidently.not content with the destruction wrought to the crops, the rabbits were now tackling the oucalypts in the Malice, literally ringbarking the trees and causing great loss. In many cases the rabbits, evi deafly standing on their hind legs, had pulled the hark oil' the trees to a height of lSin, lie had known rabbits to enter orchards and strip the hark from the trees, hut this was something new. It was a tough proposition to peel Malice scrub, but. the rabbits did
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18036, 13 March 1933, Page 9
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