Show FARM BUREAU RABBIT driff mr air 11 E larsen prominent rancher from east promontory was in this city yesterday on matters of business and reported two big rabbit drives aich the east promontory farm bureau has conducted with very marked success the bureau has also conducted two hunts and it la is estimated that the four slaughter campaigns resulted in killing approximately rabbits the drives were made on saturday december and saturday february ath and they were participated in by every man mail woman and child residing in the east promontory district A large corral was built of wire netting out in the open plain and ex expending lending on each side of the narrow lane entrance was a wire netting wing which reached out into the open country tor for a distance ot of 50 rods the women and children then stationed themselves in lines extending on from the ends of the wire netting wings and the rode down from the hills shouting and scaring the rabbits which raced in droves like sheep toward the great human and wire netting tunnel funnel leading into the corral gate As the rabbits came within range of the voices of the women and children they were encouraged cou raged in their mad taco race by the shouts and screams and the frightened animals went pell moll mell into the corral where they were later slaughtered with clubs in this activity the children participated with all tile the vigor of their heir young lives and by actual count rabbits were killed on the first days drive and on saturday last the bag to 2400 2 too mr air larsen states that despite this slaughter there does not appear to be any dearth of rabbits for they jump out of the sage or race along the roadway by the hundreds following the big drives which were conducted under the direction oi of jesse I 1 Nic bols chairman of 0 the amusement committee of the east promontory farm Du bureau reali everybody gathered at the school house where refreshments were served and the evenin evening g was spent I 1 it in dancing 0 the b big ig drives were regarded I 1 by everybody as an outing andl and families traveled a distance of thirty miles to participate in the sport the 0 poison campaign waged by tile thoi government and county has not re suited stilted as anticipated because of 0 the light snowfall tile the men have worked faithfully at the jol job of placing poisoned food hero here and there but the rabbits have been able to get the green sage and grass at the roots of the sage so they have not been driven to extremities by hunger in some other dis county where the snowfall has been heavier tile poison campaign has accomplished wonders ven ders mr air larsen reports that the promontory farm farin bureau Is going to conduct a drive at rosette on oil wednesday and thursday arid and all the ranchers on the promontory are going to participate these practically nothing as the tanners farmers provide the netting fence and no ammunition is wasted in killing the jacks clubs do the job and with thousands in a corral it Is just a matter 0 of time until the entire lot is dispatched |