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Show oo DECLINE OF AUTRALIAN RABBIT INDUSTRY. (From the Lancol.) The rabbit industry In Victoria is Rlated to be slowly but suroly disappearing. disap-pearing. Tho first export of frozen rabbits was made In I89f, in which year 14,923 rabolts were sent to England. Eng-land. Next year tho total was 431,-716 431,-716 In 1900 the total wa3 5.67S.224, and in 1905, 10,258,356 Snce that year tho total has gradually declined till last year It had come down to 2,841,64S rabbits exported. Exporters and agriculturalists alike are pleased at this result. Tho former have all tholr available freezing plants occupied occu-pied with meat and butter and cheese, while tho latter yJew .the gradual extinction ex-tinction of the rabbit pest wth com- P0Bure- t; )jnf |