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Show iiTEPS TO STOP WASTE, t AND USE RABBIT MEAT i , F'lllv two hundred thousand wiM i.llihll Hit hilled III the Cuiteil Ntnles ever) visiijuusiid'ng to in- iten iiniihi littie bloloihenl survey nl Hit) UrillJSIalOtJkjnlrtiiioiit of ngnriiliuiyr jrany orTlirnT nre jiiolc labblli. the majority of which have nl been 'utilised m tlujqinst. If nit lln nhliUe; kilbil wyontitmeil they woilld fuiitisli.bcHtcen '200.000 ..ml .1110.000 Ions of valiiuble fiMid, nnd if iMipor measures wire taken to insure Ihe collection of skins I live atoi.t would have u value or 20.000.000. The blolotcinnl survey linn fnipiciit-Iv fnipiciit-Iv bi-eii ealleil iisu to help W"estem fiinnorH in rapiiiif with the rabbit est. in view or Ihe probable oeoii'i-tiiie oeoii'i-tiiie value of rabbit meat nml fiir in Ihe coming few yenrs tho enorgloa of Hut farmers and rmiohuicn will bo directed di-rected to the coiiiorvntion of this im-Isirtnnl im-Isirtnnl ruMiurcu. Already a number of establish, incuts for collecting, dressing, canning can-ning and shipnlng inhliil meal are III operation in Wesl.'in centers. As iu Australia, the transition or the wild rchhit in thin country from its status ns n pest to source of profit is assured. |