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Show bracea ma " - , - ; I71?lbbits Cost Farmers DeP nf Grenat Britain $250,000,000 a Year "The wild rabbit is, however, the poor man's chicken, and its extermination exter-mination would do away with a great supply of cheap and palatable food. There are vast areas of farming farm-ing country, particularly in he wist, where rabbits are counted upon to pay the rent. These farm-Prs farm-Prs would undoubtedly oppose the Tdea of exterminating the rabbit. stss d 40 CUi ti tes Pa "ick Murphy hi themT; , Ma 1 of London, "eat a the Daily Mail of cow much grass as a g writer Moreover, according to f -every year b 000,ooo (about and landowners th $250,000,000) CnSheeqgray squir-BffstebP squir-BffstebP cedthespot" rel, has been y In extenuation it i rf Wales "There fieTds have been turned where 8od fields M foy into derelict useles activities. 1 Kn f the worst af-West af-West Sussex, one Q rabblts fected areas wne j t winter, were shot and trappe though the farm's a men- rersucceul -ming in many P"ts ormthne dyu-ect damage to P. -Apart from the ir destruc. grasslands an cf0ps fion they cte amng d fabbits and rden produce,fru.Uu are "e fa disease which deci-tCt0eCsCwdn0oleS'naocks deci-tCt0eCsCwdn0oleS'naocks of poultry- |