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Show Rabbit Is Troublesome When Not Restrained In regions where the common rabbit rab-bit Is unusually abundant garden and truck crops may suffer quite severely. Melons, beans, cabbage, and similar crops are usually more attractive to the young rnbbits than grass or clover. Where it Is not possible to protect the crop with a wire fence, some relief re-lief may be had by carefully utilizing bits of poisoned vegetable, apple, or small quantities of poisoned grain. On a small area, however, by watching watch-ing Just at dusk and shooting the young rabbits is perhaps a quicker and more satisfactory and safer method. .Besides the young rabbits make very good eating. By spending a little time each evening after the day's work Is over one can usually kill or drive away rabbits from the garden or from exposed truck patches. |