Rabbit Exportation.

Southland Times, Issue 14332, 28 April 1899, Page 3

Rabbit Exportation.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — four contemporary, the Otago Daily Times, of to-day, publishes the result of an interview with Mr Story, of the firm of White and Co., Victorian rabbit exporters, who has arrived to teach New Zealanders something of the methods they adopt at the' other side—“ to revolutionise the business, and redeem the name of New Zealand rabbits, which was fairly stinking in the Home market.” He is free to admit that if properly prepared for the market they are better and worth more than those from the colony from which he hails. I think, Sir, the c<ux and gist of his suggestions, under the head of preparation, lies in the suggestion I made in your columns some months ago, but which is, it would appear, not thoroughly grasped. I suggested, the necessity of Ueediwj the animals to death, by an incision with a sharp knife behind the angle of the jaw; below the ear, so as to divide the blood vessels in the neck. He says rightly, what 1 have long contended for, that “if the blood is retained in the body after freezing the flesh turns dark, almost black in color,” and yet he has a hazy notion that severing the jugular vein, when cleaning the bellies, is what is needful. It will evidently involve still further loss and dishonourable reputation for our exports because the public is so slow to learn what common sense must teach if reason be permitted to control practice.—l am, &c., J. Ward. Lumsden, April 26th, 1899/