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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 78, 18 December 1890, Page 4

XheiJoa^gScourge— Stoats and ■;^ ! .- : j ,--' Weasels iy B. A. (OXO N). /It Js passing strange to, an outside ob#fl£^er tha^ip a country dependent asithi? is i ]to\ sa- great an extent upon agricultural -products^ and where so iniin^ aft .its ; ;settlerß must have had i pqrj^nal .experjence on/ the^ above r- been no public T deJ?WHSJ J ;M' <> B>:fl9 r Combined -action taken - -uwon lliis-mo.st important question To ,-Mieflj: rroHiew the c position, some years riigff the rabbit, w.is iiitioducd into this " 'couiiiry. i % ->"(iay the rabbit p!a«ujj is a histyriciilfact. To coinbtit this plague, liutTUjjoii >\ l.uit ivasonifl^j is beyond eon i /" preheHfion., jii^usands of the .public ' r f uaids liave' Wti-n 'spent in ,in> rod ucmg ano lrb§?sltini? sti'iat's. -feVri-tsr"hn-l weasels. "^Tu^tlie kUliiiy^pf Jhese, vermin has been 1 s niaue a.crnnfnaTi ft'erice '. ■ I . .Ja f, l ,r 7 . and rez&s&iffli^: '■'■ "I'lfi*"' vermin '(b'uiJpiVrticular re, fereat<K»is<he i i-ev«iUieii to' the ;«e iselsj to — tkrnirv-iic'>iruelipn aujonj»st the rnillibns B*c^^W^itx^j%^bV'j : brJui;ht'% the /hou>- '. ,:unid\liand ,taiinkl UOOO as a >iaf', the (" " the ye'nr, flsat ~' + ..ei'^'liit, j ; ungpne's i] et .p.aic.make-i the totHl'of (l,(X)!»:ind d^dfM) . ; fr]^o(^aj_^ie c.nd ;<»f the^.eTr.f Atithe n Qa&of .the^ .-«e(roiid'ye.ir l|.i-= i(),00i» ' Wm>&P, aud- r at ' tiie end of\h*e third z - '}la4- i i^i(jq.Y)(JU the re^t is" irierely a^um in arifrjiinVf je. AoW many ; yehrs' : wi)l il (■■take the millions ' of ,"]B ; easelsj"fo kill -the rabbits 5 ? 'Nd^Anay j for a -' fl lsßsel oHIy I'siicfes-the1 ' siicfes -the bloody and jrill .eiai:iia9 UHhtr oife W' day: >'Thkt 'malces — 3^,69fj,09(i-rabb)ts a year. Than comes :Ht*fiii .^obli«m, K\i'hM tJi'ey live ion t>ii(wKflh^lreiiabbifcs(aieftoneand until they . iMi^Sr^ &§l ' oxtMmin&t>fi<l?x ii r^hai f is jthe . -. questioa— tiiat-iias- to-be -answered, and :; IS. tKSt . M waiffs/ Cloitier' /queStionj of to 9fcpktfJ QMpoUli<i?ir Xf th^irabbit ,pla|?ue i)iiß'l*iK^ s^ this, plague, will • .SMff^^iri'li b-o, --:Mi^ ■■> -i? i.. xob can sometimes poison rabqits. r -r<r-C*ja you nokon-w.easeih? /No. for the i ' : .; M five offTresh' blood,' and do hot eat fl.fsh! ••-> 'rabbits, cau you '*& tßng&MuM vFgase'ls-f No/ for they pan - climb like squirn-ls, and over fence ij therpjcolon.y7/-c t 6uld.Tereeiv ; How then will ':" i^be'done"? Trappiru?? Is" there nqt a ! -^^Uofeitrmy o¥ keepers for ever trapping f l^m-im. l 4e?^fela u couhtry ? -Dbes |iot fcrer farmers son hunt them do*vu-(ex - -cept l perjiaps whpn I'ats ,are. abiindafat), V- -' I Shd Oll s^tt c 'tney 9l svVaFm ; ? : Here are Ithe f^'%^^f L a K Sebtcli 1 " set tier : 'On jthe t~ zt&eWh. iieartny'home in Dumbartonshire a mob of. weasels were known to take two - , m j assing ,a point travelling at a •il-.^BSa>pace; ! How inady thousands would i n ibe^it^ere ? And one keeper would kill ; ofiftyi a night sometimes, and yet they -i^l'tsfhrme^'-M > , \ i Now, what will they .be living on; as ■' —tfce — rabbits gros scarcer? First and u.ialoremost/lambs i .What more tempting ;eI;M %-iP.Uck of hungry, (they hunt jijj ia packs like welves)_than a, weekly newt»orn e iamb ? Tlien^once tasted, lambs .-- _aLe_the food for them. It's only a short rP,,,|i\ep, frpm. the big lamb; to.' full gro ( wn J.-,:,, and where will our Frozen Mutton '"Trade" be then? : r . '" Sedbndly, birds. These are tie r ■ ■f£atural ! f6od,* and wh«n they tackle j,he ' < sparrows they will do good to some. iWifl they draw the line there? JNot «. they .; r every member-, of : the feathered - -' will be a welcome victim, and what - f Js going to keepdownlthe plague of ca^er--1 "; - r p'i liars and insect hordes when the bijrds - r-arecslaughtered- by the weasels? ? "^ill grow crojrs then, pray? : Thirdly, human beings, Tt is on the * .ji^!"^ 00 * °^ our naturalists, r " and of reliable eye witnesses, that weasels iti numbers will attack, in the most for- . ljuidftbleand dangerous manner, grownlup -persons. The writer has the evidencesettier in this district to; the effect that a former neighbour when ploughing ~ only saved his life by unyoking his horse, jumping on one and galloping away. : This, then, is the gloomy prospect of a '..'. "few' years hence. The country overjrun , frpnx end to end with a horde of fierce yjand.^blopd-thirsty little animals, unequalled m ferocity and tenacity, in« , , T cieasinguu'ter this genial climaie at an " rate, incapable' ! of being ; * incapable of being fenc« d : / f dut,;'ahd inciipable : of bem<r hunted •' dOwn owing to the inaccessible nature of r.rj/ftie counriy itself,' iriad with their thirst tor blood, destroying every blood- bearing i >, bird ..or jbeast : that can.be;run,d,"own, 1-av- , ; ;ing pie rof.ting ; bodies. of ,t.ieir victims to '.. ffJ bjeed., pestilence on all sides, rendering ■■j'ouriertjle lands barren,, for no cropjeari '• ' grow insects .'swarm on all sides (the birds are' aH dead) and lastly njak» ■ -frig tiie homes of every back settler a scene of terror and dismay, where (he : i "father Tcnbws not an/ day but that le x.c may. , return to find the corpses of. his -, "-.wife., and, !i( tie ones . victims to a mob of .; these ruthless blood »,sufkers. We read ■ ( rof .the terror of a: traveller in Russians ,' , Jje'heiirs the cry <f the wolves, but, the '■"''Dravestbusliman w\\\^yet'i urn pale wjien ; he hears the kcreebll' of the weasel, and . knofl's that in a few .minutes a host of iflieui vrill be sfiiarminij over him ever for ; r !hls -throat, until his g'aiit 9tre:jgth ■is^exhaustcd, and he sinks another victim - of the coining scourge. i Certainly, the best raertinne known n '- Sandkr and Eucalypti ExTitAC'r. Test its einineni.ly powerful effects in r -, coughs, cohl>!, influenza . ; the relief is in-. . -.stantaneouK. In serious cases, and ac* *eidents . of all kinds, be they wounds.,l>urns, sealdini'.s, bruises, it is the safest "rpinptiy — no swellins; — no in*flnmntion. Like surprising effects pro- '' duced in croup, diphtheria, ' l.tronchuu, inflammation of the Inhiis, svrt'llins, &c ; diarrhoea, d*. sentry, disenses of tlie kid* neys. .-.mid urinary or_»ns. 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