THE RABBIT PEST.
DAMAGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. COUNTRY’S GREATEST CURSE. The Daily Telegraph’s agricultural, editor, in a special article on the rabbit pest, says: “The dominance of the rabbit over a great part of the best of New South V 7 ales has again become a national problem. In nearly every pastoral district in the central division and the highlands of tl\.e eastern division it is numerous and increasing, and beating the methods employed to check its increase. The spread of the rabbit is the greatest curse of the country today, robbing us of half of our possible pastoral wealth and entailing enormous expenditure and constant effort to keep it in cheek.”
Condemning the fallacy that the rabbit should be respected for its commercial value, the article states: ’ Thirty million rabbit skins have been sold so far this year in the Sydney market. That number of rabbits would displace at least two million sheep. How many rabbits must the State be depasturing to the displacement of stock when that number of skins is sold in the Sydney auctions alone.”—Press Association.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2475, 2 September 1922, Page 4
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181THE RABBIT PEST. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2475, 2 September 1922, Page 4
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