| Show the rabbit babbit pest allen allea B E stout of leamington leavington Lea millard county coati writes as follows june lune 51 5 noticing Nat icing frequent allusions in your valuable paper to the rabbit pest I 1 beg to be allowed to venture an opinion as to the most feasible method of exterminating them or rather holding their rapid increase in che check for X L believe extermination to be impracticable even it if desirable in dealing with the evil it must bo be borne in mind that wherever they ex to a troublesome extent there is a vast range of dry barren land or desert covered with brush or otherwise other wisa wiss as the ease case may be and generally generall y extending for miles around the afRic afflicted ted settlement this la is the rabbits safe guard when a rabbit hunt is organized thousands of them may be killed or maimed enough to depopulate several square miles perhaps but hundreds of square miles of rabbits still remain and it only requires a few months time for the enemy to make good the loss sustained under suck conditions a repose after victory to la equivalent to a defeat the mistake we make is in supposing that man was waa ever intended as a rabbit exterminator we should endeavor to find some animal having the ability and disposition to carry the war into africa what would there be to prevent a ferret following a rabbit down into his badger hole home and cutting his throat if a few fairs pairs were imported and turned loose 1 can see bothin nothing to prevent their rapid increase and ang the consequent bent solution of ef the rabbit question |
