Show A babbit rabbit nuisance the sydney australia herald devotes an article to two nuisances from which australia is suffering the kangaroos and the rabbits in 1874 a gentleman in victoria de airous of sport turned out four couples of rabbits rab bite and already their progeny may be numbered by millions they have within this short period done much towards desolating two of the finest districts in victoria and they have spread over its ita limits into south wales all efforts to check the advance of the rabbit plague has thus far proved unavailing where the rabbit cannot find grass grab he can live on bushes and when driven from one district bo he has no difficulty in finding means of exie exle existence tence in another ail AM the beet methods of killing him have been tried t shooting netting block blocking ing the li furrows with stones atones but none have succeeded the rabbit has continued to multiply unless immediate steps of a moie eng eni energetic nature are taken to stamp them out the southwestern district of kt nt w south bouth wales bays says the herold herald will soon eoon be overrun and to no small extent destroyed in the dib dit district brict of victoria stations which before their appearance supported thousands of sheep c cannot 0 dmn now 0 W carry one ono quarter of tann the D u b e rand it beema seems uncertain how long they will continue to sustain even the reduced flocks selectors crops aro are devoured 40 who wholesale lemle acres upon acres being destroyed in a single night stacks of hay bay or grain are riddled through and through rough tn gardens are completely stripped and unless new and stronger measures be bei adopted the whole of or the country in that direction willbe reduced to a desert an enterprising farmer in victoria went to melbourne for a reaper and binder but before he could get it to work the whole of hla hia crop was eaten onn by the rabbits in other parts the kangaroos aro are almost as destructive but they can be seen and either caught or kept ata afa distance with sorl some little trouble but the rabbit hides bides himself beneath the ground and often defeats detection tec tion in france and england a great deal of mon money 1 ey is made by rearing rabbits for the market A single pair has often yielded a hundred per cent as an Iny int investment estment the fecundity of this animal isso is so great however that it becomes a nuis nula nuisance ance anee whenever it is allowed to run at large |