VIRUS SLAUGHTERS RABBITS.
Rabbits took possession of the cemetery at Rouen, France, and ate up all plants am! flowers as fast, as they were placed, upon the graves. The keepers culled in hunters with ferrets, hut the burrows were almost straight down, so the ferrets could do nothing. Then some of the virus used in Australia when the rabbits became a pesl was obtained. [>;•. 3,<;ir of the Rouen Board of Health inoculated several rabbits with it and turned them loose in the cemetery. Kiehl days later there wen.no rabbits in Hie ccinett.Ty. All had died in their burrows.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 September 1914, Page 2
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98VIRUS SLAUGHTERS RABBITS. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 September 1914, Page 2
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