THE RABBIT PEST.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1299, 30 November 1911, Page 8

THE RABBIT PEST.

EVILS OP TKAPPIKG FOR E2POR?. H?ffi\' r r IJ, iiiDn < D'recl'"- of <ijel\ Mtwfiic.tory r-wition does not. apply where trapping for export, is in f-.voiir I.IIIS- b,wnr« has Si t.uus; the rabbit, is piworveil. home 1; nrowneis demand a-royalty or chaiw fl"m rappers for the privilege of exVlo tii • their oounh-f. U{„ assifred that'-.o 'S as the, rabbit is permitted to bo con-iff-eml marketable for export its numbu* will no.l l»e effectively (limmi-htil Thi» J.vMem (it trapping tor export extcrds over a largo area of country. - The in. toreM.s in trapping occupy tV nttentioa of many people. The trapper, the lamlowner, th« storekeeper (who iisiiallv tnn financier of the trapper), the carriers (who collect from the trapper and trar,--port. the rabbit; to the railway), the merchant (who,supplies the storekeeper! the freezing.works, and the shipping companics arc-all • conrcrn«l.. Ther-einterosta arc incompatible with effective control of J K lu .■' J ! l l ": rc . a re'm«ny representations niade that, tlns-indnstry-for. such it- i«rshould not obriin the support and •' mpathy. of the farmer, it is pribablv iinnvailing to represent that the crucial point i*-V\ hieh is the more remunerative to the community, the live stock of the tarm and the crops, or the exploitation, 01. the rabbit -as an article of export 5 Ilierc-caiiuot be stock and ernpt ?r Hi., tarni on, one hand,'ami rabbits on tie other, and both profitable., iHe one fn.j at the cost ol the other.' "An examination of the districts whme trapping i? a business is more than mflicicnt evidence (hat the rabbit at the expense'of the farmer."