Show I GAR CAR FUMES F U M E S SURE DEATH I FOR BUNNIES Australian Farmer Exterminates Exterminates nates Cottontails Via Exhaust Gas Route I II I Early In tho the nineteenth century tho the pioneers of or Australia confronted bythe by bythe br the problem of ot obtaining fresh tresh meat at atlow atlow low ow prices began to breed rabbits for tor table purposes The experiment proved a i success from the very Cr cry start but it was not many years cars before the blessing of plentiful rabbits began to take tho aspect of a plague of or the most serious character Multiplying T with ith amazing rapidity they began bes-an to overrun the tho rich ranch and farm tann lands and the damage resulting resulting result result- ing in- from their feeding on the crops ran Into the millions of or pounds sterling a l. l year To combat them organized drives in which all the settlers in a a wide would participate area were I staged and thousands s of ot the pests were killed from time to time But the problem has never been completely solved and id today the Australian farmer fanner looks s upon the extermination of or rabbits rabbits rabbits rab rab- bits as part of or tho the routine of ot farming The Tho customary method of ot extermination tion is by digging out the burrows but Walter Hawker a rancher of ot Anama Station Clare Claro has devised a 3 means which enables him t to kill rabbits quicker an and 1 more moro cheaply than b by I using a p pick ck ck and shovel sho Ho uses a II motor car His method is briefly described in a no aletter aletter letter to a friend You will be bo interested to know anew a no anew new use for the tho motor car I am fumigating fu- fu fu fumigating u- u rabbits with it I remove the silencer and fit on is In a piece picco of or flinch 11 H- HInch inch pipe with lith a reducing socket and a aWater aWater avater Water vater pipe union get et 30 feet et of ot 1 1 Inch I boro bore hose hos go to a a. burrow tho the wind up-wind side face taco the car to tho the wind 1 put the hose hoso into the burrow in tho the most upwind upwind upwind up up- wind hole hole and fill that hole hole- up with dirt As the tho smoke comes out of the theother theother theother other holes fill till In till tin all are arc packed If It a largo large burrow run tho the car for tor five minutes when every rabbit will be killed Tho rho exhaust fumes arc mostly carbon monoxide which forms a certain certaIn cot cot- tain tamn compound with the tho blood of or the tho rabbit and poisons It I worked the car for six hours for tor a a. consumption of ot t two o gallons of petrol and fumigated fumi mm- sated hated seventeen large larSe burrows This I would have taken seven men eight dasto days das to dig out I reckon that one days day's work Ba saved ed 20 O pounds at least as the seven soven diggers and ono one cook at 2 3 pounds 2 shillings a week one ono one boss at 4 pounds a week and feed for tor nine nino men menat menat menat at 17 shillings a week comes to 28 pounds and 9 shillings a week Deduct the cost of ot petrol oil wear ari and acid 1 tear and two men to fumigate you OU will gotan got gotan gotan an easy saving of ot 10 pounds and the rabbits are killed so much quicker |