BABBIT EXTERMINATION.
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS.
Sydney, February 11th. For some months past Drs Butcher and Ellis have been conducting experiments in the Darling district inoculating rabbits with disease which is found among them in parts of Victoria and Tasmania. Eight hundred rabbits were confined in an enclosure and inoculated with the disease with success, bunny wasting away in seventeen days. To test the effect on other animals, a number were inoculated at the same time, but these exhibited no signs of the disease, thus proving, that it was peculiar to the rabbit. It is claimed that the disease can be easily and safely spread.
With a view to arriving at the best of the inoculating schemes, the Government havo decided to appoint a Commission composed of experts chosen from all the colonies to whom all such schemes will be referred.
The Agent-General has been directed to obtain a quantity of microbes and direction for their use from M. Pasteur.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1429, 15 February 1888, Page 3
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