THE MAGNITUDE OF THE RABBIT PEST.
Dunedin, This day
The operations of the New Zealand Agricultural Company on their AVaimea Plains estate show the magnitudo of the rabbit pest. During the threo years ended October last 525,0541b of poisoned oais were laid on the company's estate, with the result that 2,530,772 skins were obtained, and as it is reckoned that not much more than a third of the poisoned rabbits are picked up, the company must have destroyed fully 0,000,000 rabbits _ during tho three years. The most gratifying part of these figures is that they show that while for 79,5701b of poison laid in the first year 1,027,350 skins were taken, in the third year only 504,847 skins were taken for 302,8091b of poison laid—that is, in the first year nearly thirteen rabbits were brought in for every pound of poisoned oats laid, but in the third year hardly two rabbits for every pound, and 462,503 fewer skins were paid for in 1882-3 than in 1880-1
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3827, 22 October 1883, Page 3
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166THE MAGNITUDE OF THE RABBIT PEST. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3827, 22 October 1883, Page 3
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