Stoats and Lambs.
Will a stoat kill a lamb ? "It appears to me,’’ says a correspondent of a Southern paper, ” that the question whether the stoat will kill lambs or not could be easily proved in the following manner, viz. Prc vide a small stoat proof enclosure ; within this place a couple, or more, of stoats, and when they are properly hungry put in the enclosure, say, a couple of lambed ewes, with twin lambs and watch the result. If. as the advocates of the introduction of these vermin maintain, the rabbits will be exterminate.! by the stoat, the above will ultimately be tbe condition of the stoat in New Zealand—is , lamb or nothing. On our farms it will al* ways be poultry, lamb, or starvation. Everyone knows the stoat cannot be got rid of if once it gets established,
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1898, 18 October 1886, Page 2
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140Stoats and Lambs. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1898, 18 October 1886, Page 2
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