Show depredations of rabbits cost farmers of great britain a year although the british farmer is complaining that he cannot dispose of his hay bay the rabbit did its best to 0 cut short the crop forty of them hem writes patrick murphy in the he daily mail of london eat as much grass as a good dairy cow moreover according to this writer every year rabbits cost farmers and landowners about consequently the british rabbit like the gray squirrel has been placed on the spot in extenuation it is added there are whole areas of wales where good fields have been turned into derelict useless land by their activities I 1 know of one farm in west sussex one of the worst affected areas where 2000 rabbits were shot and trapped last winter though the farm is only a little over acres in size they are a menace to successful farming in many parts of the country apart from the direct damage to grasslands and the awful destruction they create among co corn rn crops and garden produce wild ald rabbits are one of the most fruitful causes of a disease which h decimates whole flocks of po poultry aultry the wild rabbit is however the poor mans mails chicken and its extermination mi nation would do away with a great food supply of cheap and palatable ble there are vast areas of farming country particularly in the west where rabbits are counted upon to pay the rent these farmers would undoubtedly oppose the idea of exterminating the rabbit |