PROFITABLE SIDELINES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18408, 15 June 1925, Page 13

PROFITABLE SIDELINES.

■; MONEY IN RABBITS AND MUSHROOMS v (WOlt OUR OTTK COBRESrOH&MT.} .- " ■ SYDNEY, June 4. The rabbiter, unlike the man whose all is in tho land, can, and probably docs, view with equanimity the misfortunes and trials of the latter, when his holding is ravaged by the rabbit, for what is a profit for oho is a pest for th-"> other. Both iu trapping and .iu poisoning in the Wellington district.: iu Is'ew South Wales rabbiters are reported to be making up to £2O a week. It is more than most men will .ever earn in their lives, after they : have, spent long Years at school and much money in scaling the'".tree of knowledge. One farmer in the Wellington district actually secured a. better prico lor.rabbitskins than ho did for sheepskins. '.. Think, too, of the prohts from .the simplo and inexpensive and pleasant occupation of mushrooming, and of the two men who went but recently/ and gathered up 53.cases . of." mushrooms, which vielaed a return of 15s. a caßej or hist on £4O in all. There is the report too, of the man who, with ..his family, netted so much out of mushrooms for.a week that he has now made mushrooming a. business., These men in their quest of the profitable rabbit and mushroom are doing a great deal better than many of the farmers' j themselves. -,.