20,000 Jack Rabbits wero killed, and at Lamar, Colorado, December Decem-ber 22, 1894, 5,142 rabbits were kill-ed. kill-ed. We all know that Rabbits nre a destructive pest, and many trees have been barked and bitteu off in our vicinity, by them. The Bulletin says, in its general summary and conclusions, that "The best means of protecting crops from the attacks of rabbits, and in fact the only method which can be relied on, is the use of lab-bit-proof fences. Under favorable circumstances great numbers of jack rabbits may be killed by drives or large hunts, but this means will only serve to reduce their numbers, and can not ' be used to exterminate the pests. Bounties or other direct expenditures expend-itures of public money for the de- .. struction of rabbits have failed to accomplish the desired object. , j Bounty laws afford unusual op- .( portumties for fraud, and the " amounts expended are often so large as to be a serious burden on the county or state. The extermination of rabbits can only be accomplished by co-operation on the part of individual farmers farm-ers or landowners. The work of destruction can be most effectually . and economically done when the animals have suffered an unusual decrease in numbers, either from , a severe winter, lack of food, or an epidemic. Jack Rabbits may be used for coursing, for their skins, or for food." The United States import i annually millions of rabbit skins for felt and other purposes. The skin of jack rabbits could proba-bty proba-bty be used for many purposes for which the cheaper grades of imported im-ported skins are now utilized, and could be collected so cheaply as to leave a margin of profit. The copsumption of jack rabbits for food amounts to about 600,000 per annum, and is gradually in- Jaols. 2n'fc"fclt. We are in receipt of Bulletin no. 8, issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, sent us by Hon. T. S. Palmer, Assistant Chief of Division Di-vision of Ornitohlogy and Mammalogy. Mam-malogy. The document is on "The Jack Rabbits of the United States," and gives some interesting items on the subject, giving their habits, the species found in the United States, abundance and rapidity of increase, injury to crops and means of protection, methods of distinction, distinc-tion, value of the Jack Rabbit, fec It is illustrated with 9 cuts, maps, and diagrams, and gives results re-sults of various rabbit drives. At one drive in Fresno, California, creasing. This game can be obtained ob-tained in considerable quantities on the plains and on the deserts of the Great Basin, and may be profitably pro-fitably shipped to Eastren markets to the mutal benefit of the farmers and consumer."