A RABBIT PLAGUE
BRITISH FARMERS’ LOSSES. I TRAPPING UNPROFITABLE. LONDON, Aug. 25. ' The Daily Telegraph says that a rabbit plague is causing severe losses to fanners, especially in East Anglia, which, is over-run. Mr. 8. Radcliff, ex-president of the National Farmers’ Union, ascribes the plague partly to mild springs and hot summers, but chiefly to the low price of imported rabbit meat making trapping unprofitable. He points out that England imported £576,000 worth of frozen rabbits in 1934, and suggests a heavy tariff on imported rabbit meat-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 200, 27 August 1935, Page 7
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87A RABBIT PLAGUE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 200, 27 August 1935, Page 7
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