GAS ATTACKS ON RABBITS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19847, 16 January 1920, Page 4

GAS ATTACKS ON RABBITS.

MOTOR-CAR AS EXTEILAHNATOIISY.DXLY, January 3. In tho Western district the motor-ear has been adapted to the work of killing rabbits. Dir. engine of the car is set running, and one end of the hose is attached to the exhaust pipe while the other end is inserted iii one of the inlets of the. warren. All other entrances to thu warren are cloved. The poison gas that is forced into the burrow docs the restThe car is being made to undertake a kind of gas attack and to carry tb o assault right into the enemy’s own camp.

The* campaign i s proving; itself both cheap ami effmivo, and'experiments that have been carried nut, in Bathurst district give promise of branding the. motor-ear as the best rabbit exterminator discovered to date. Burrows that have, been dug out after fumigation ha ve revealed the deadliness of The process. In nearly every ease rabbits numbering from two dozen to fifty have boon found dead near fbo mill.luces that bad been blocked, ami none have been found alive eUmvbero in the warren. Even those lim.E'bave managed to get out during the attack have died Inter.

Reckoning the cost 0 f octroi and oil ‘the depreciation of the motor, and t|„’ interest on capital, it has been found that tiie ear fumigating method involves about only ,d per cent of the expense of digging out.