Show A RABBIT PLAGUE ABOUT forty years ago a single pair of rabbits was introduced into australia and now the various colonial goverline go governments vernine ats are wrestling with th the 0 question que sJon of a rabbit extermination lit it to is estimated that the progeny of two rabbits in ten years will aggregate ag gregat from 1888 to 1890 tile the government of new south wales expended over endeavoring to exterminate the vermin in addition to this private enterprise was also dir doted to their extermination royalty was paid in one year on babbit skins charles W kent of london who la Is now on his bis way to the antipodes to special information on the rabbit ob obtain tain question tion w was as interviewed recently by a san francisco chronicle reporter and gave some history in relation to tho the little animal which is M making K so BO much trouble the royalty paid td by government for killing a rabbit ca t is i two cents the skin sells for IN six ix cents and the for four cents aj J that I 1 an active man can make go id wages killing rabbits in the skin alone there are ten companies in and four in new Z aland engaged one half of these theme combi combine with it the of packing the meat th they ey are to see the rabbits exterminated the farmers are doing every everything hing in their power to mitigate the rabbit pest pent through their agency that pasteur it w was as u undertook oderto ok to exterminate the animal by in means eans of chicken cholera inoculation he would have done so go but was thwarted by the skin and meat dealers they are supporting a bill now before the sydney legislature which it is iq expected will solve the this bill provides for t the he problem ro blem building 11 ing of a brick wall entirely around t the he agricultural region of new 8 south ou t wales ales the walls will be sunk stink 24 feet in the ground because it is said rabbits cannot burrow beneath that depth then within the enclosure will commence the exterminating process and once clear the district can easily be maintained so outside t the wall the rabbit cannot well thrive and gradual extinction is looked for |