Show I MAKING MONEY OUT OT OF RABBITS Australians No Longer Regard Little Animals as Pests BIG PROFITS TO TRAPPERS Exports Export's of Cm Carcases and Beach Total of Ten Million Dollars u a Year Sydney Australia Sept 2 X DY By By th the tho Iron Irony of or circumstances Just at the time time when Dr Br the tho famous French Frond bacteriologist has arrived In Sydney Sydne with his tubes of ot mys mys microbes which he thinks will wll obliterate the lie rabbit pest In tn Australia Austral by ly the lie spread of or a contagious disease disease- the tho rabbit Is becoming a valuable com corn asset osset One exporter estimates estimate that already It brings a a. year yea to the lie commonwealth but C. C C C. I Lance ance who was not long bug ago the commercial agent In London for or New South Wales prefers to put the figures at The Industry It Is to be rom remembered Is still sUH in swaddling clothes 1 but ut JudgIng JudgIng Judg Judg- Ing log from tho the development of or the last las few tew years the lie of or today should quickly grow row kilt Into many millions Thor Thieve are arc Immense possibilities ahead Butof But nUl of or course there Is la Dr to 10 b be reckoned with It Is exceedingly doubt doubt- ful CuI iii however howe whether r he lie will bo Ie per per- ml tied to proceed to any length lens with wit his Ills experiments experiment Apart from ruin time the exIsting ox ex- rear fear that lint he ho will set loose Joose a n cIl disease dis- dis ease case which may be dangerous to human human hu hu- man beings s anti to other forms of an aol aol- I I- I life lire there Is In a strong tronG feeling that with the time rent great and Increasing demand for the tho carcasses and skins of rabbits 1 the tho rodent will In th the ordinary coors coon of or events o cease to be bo a 0 pest pst An And moreover it Il Is 19 coining to b be recognize that mitt not hot only will tho time Industry millions of or dollars to Australia annn- annn ally but hut that It will VIII afford employment to a vast army ormy of or mac im-i For or this timis reason the labor Jabor parties f fJ ft J Joral oral eral amid anil state are arc bitterly opposed tJ t Dr and his scheme Trappers Fur Konu Union A Already I the time are complaining corn com of or a scarcity of rural lal labor laho They y are arc no longer long able to lO Hi tim services R of bodied able men for or 2 r 1 a week and their keep For rabbit r trapping has imas of or a sudden become a n r r- mun profession anti and It Is char char- characteristic 0 of or conditions hero here that lint withIn with with- within In lie tho last few days a rabbit r union minion has 1 been een formed The Time rr anti and export firms In Sydney and MI- MI Ml bourne arc are s sending hundreds of m m away Into the country ev every r wool week t to tJ districts where the local supply of trapper trap trap- per per- perIs Is IJ Insufficient and anti thus therea there there- 1 I is isa a 11 steady absorption of the tan tam Jn unemployed Likely applicants ar are arC provided with traps on time pa payment ment and amI the time newcomers are placed at first beside experienced men who isho teach tench then them the tin routine At Al Gunnedah Tumut Dubbo and some other places place good trappers rappels are earning according to one authority 25 n tl week authority puts It at iZ or a allay dayMen day Men Jon with young unK families to assist them benD do even bett better r. r In this tion the report of or a n country In inspector of oC state schools to time the public instruction lion tion department of New South Wales Wale is signifIcant At the present June junc tur lure he lit says ars It Is a difficult task t to do homo home lessons lesson Kd Jet children to an any The rhe hl high h price of rabbit skins induces Induce purt parents to emolo their lr children fo for tOI half haIC the I night In trapping rabbits Maim Many families Camilles in iii this district are earnIng earning earn earn- Ing Inri as ns much as all 60 to per Ier week k a athe at the business In many of the towns town there Is a wood famine It being Impossible Im- Im irn- irn possible to lo find carters willing to waste wast time lime drawing wood when they ca cacam can ean corn cam so 80 much at al trapping rabbits From Fron this cau cause e also alRo the time attendance nt ot country country coun coun- lr try schools during the lie quarter now no ending will be greatly reduced reduce oil Solicit A piece of or further evidence e Is supplied sup sup- plied piled b by Mr Ir th the he director of habor la labor lahar la- la bor har In lii New Ness South Wale Ille In his last lus report to the lie minister he lie quotes sue such paragraphs as the time following from Crom th time the reports of his various country corro corre- si Hon The lime off season but no such thing thins ns as unemployed Usual resorts of loafer loafers loaf loaf- er ers I deserted All gone one th the mone money Honey earned curnell at which Is lIel lickly to 10 in In- In creaso the lie rates of or wages tJ demanded by etc Spending capacity o otho or of ortho tho the working classes greater than thun fo fOI ot years past Very goo good No unemployed All unskilled unskilled un un- un- un skilled labor absorbed In trap rabbit ping The Tho lie rabbit Industry has hns absorbed al althe nIl all the lie genuine unemployed Great t demand f for r farm hn hands Most Mos t local labolt laborers rs are aro now and andall andall all al sUite state that their earnings are aro good Any n men muon previously unemployed arenow aro are aronow aronow now trapping rabbit and earning good money No local unemployed and ver very few feu travelers n Labor cr very scarce carce Demand much h In excess excels of oC supply oU O to th hi large number Humber of men and boys bos employed rab nib 1 biting i t I ii g. g What hat a n contrast to the lie story of ono one short year ear ago Then from Crom every cry quarter mind and from the sane same MOe correspondents correspondents correspondents dents came caine accounts of or nn and distress The rime Australian has bus at al last been boon persuaded that thal oven even th the rabbit rab mb- bl bit f has hUH Its Is uses ii t Are re Vii rr So much for the the workers' workers point of view The Flie Individuals and amid companies who arc nrc finding time the capital have havo equal reason r ason to be TIme Tho state stati governments gov go of or Now New Wales anil South Victoria Vietoria Vie Vic toria torla ha have pro lt provided cold stor storage e accommodation ac ac- In Sydney nn and Melbourne but bUI of or if late latt this has liati been round found rl ridiculously Inn Inadequate eQuate an and private private private vate enterprise I Is supplementing It Among the time urns firms that supply cold storage storage stor stor- 3 age C In Sydney are tho the Fresh Foil and andIce Ice company turning out lOO tW era crates I OH OHa a day the Metropolitan Ice Ico company compan out from Crt fio to 7 jJ W cral crates a day an and the tho Inland Freezing company company- has hns branch works In 11 several 1 country centers centers turning turning out 1100 cratts cratt's cral's a mm do day In him th the lie l government cold storage department turns out 1 0 crates a n d' d day and there are a a. large number of nf smaller and freezer with wHim wih dull dally outputs varying from froni 10 crates I to 0 fO f fil There are twenty four rabbits rabbis In a n crate crau and ar r recent prices arices Ilal paid In iii Lendon London Lon Len Ln- Ln don cIon range from per crate accordIng accord accord- Ing lug to the classes In which the car car- cashes cassos are graded b by government o g grad grad- er ers Considerable consignments are arc sent regularly from Cram Brisbane and Ado Adi- inide and these e like those from frum Syd- Syd v U v 11 Melbourne KO go JO to the time United Unell Kingdom om South Africa Hong Hons Kon Kons iong Ul and UHl the Philippines It I Is noted that the carcasses fr ore In Inspected inspected in- in 11 and graded under official su SU- su- su Great at In lii Shins Hut Dil the lie profit accruing from frozen l carcasses Is la only si U part of oC the time whole profit pron There Ther Is good g mone money In canned rabbit iad md and this tills It Is lt a n branch of or the time trade the thu prospects of or which should be le Improved improved Im Im- im- im proved d I by the time Chicago Th The greatest return of all al however Is II derived de do- rl rived from tho skins Last year the time I Iolue value of tIme the exported skins slightly Slight I exceeded tJ that tha of th time the frozen carcasses an and this will again be bo time the the ease cae during t the hl present year Every Evry fry week week-lW ve k iN to HO tons tOiS of oC skins skins' are uro sold In Sydney und ahful bOO tons In iii Melbourne and I Hie lie ht prices have 10 ad advanced CO W 0 jr r cen cent I since sinco January Tho iho prices now mOW J are from room 2 i. I o 18 to 10 30 cen cents tH a pound und and on an I average n seven Rl 1 3 skins go o to a a. a pound The fhe buyers come mostly from the lie l Kingdom nn arid and from room America but the Iw lit list hat fat manufactures manufactured of Sydney and amid Melbourne Mel Mel- IcI Ic- I Just now bourne are large purchasers purchasers- 1 rabbit skins representing an approximate value of 00 are aro weekly week ly arriving arriving In Sydney 1 So profitable Indeed has become t time h skin skill industry that m many ny trappers especially es es- es- es pecla those thos In the time out far-out districts district art arc art devoting their attention entirely to I It Hy fly retaining th tIme the and discard discard- I lug Ins the carcasses the they avoid tin tim cost COSI and risk of forwarding the latter later hun hun- of miles to 0 cold storage Tin Th effect of this Is that lint arc often I apt to b be unable to get sufficient supplies supplies sup sup- i plies of carcasses Of course an Incidental but Important I advantage I antage will wi bo be that tho time Industry will servo to keep the lie rabbit pest under r i control In fact new news comes from flom Cur Cur- ur- ur 1 coar cour to lo the effect that lint owing to Ih tIme tho activity of ot trappers rabbits are uro for th o I first tl time In the recollection of oC tin tin- ii ol oldest est inhabitant no longer a a. 0 nUI nuisance In that center centt r. r Another advantage will willbe willbe wil wilbe be that tf tIme consumer of or canned rabbit will haw have larger supplies at nt a a. smaller smal r cost of ot a a good wholesome palatable article of or merit meat mft diet rh The rho development should assist Limo tho realization of oC time tho tH I cheap dinner table able |