The Babbit Fest • — ♦ — • Tilr Teschesaaker, m a paper on the rabbit pest, makes the following startHog propositions:— (l) That the annua loss of the colcny through the ravages of the rabbits is ereater than the'entir* interest on the Public Debt. (2) That the. pest is increasing, and if we go on as we are .now doing "we shall be a ruined community m ten years." In the; year 1874 there were 1,181,360 acres m the colony laid down m artificial grasses ; this, together with native tussock land, served to depasture 11,704,853 sheep, ard the export o£ wool was £2,832,695. Four years later— that is to say, m 1878— the land under artifical grasses bad more than doubled (2,608,839 acreß), but the number of sheep carried bad only risen onesixth and the export of wool about onevsevijnih. - -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 232, 3 September 1883, Page 3
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137Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 232, 3 September 1883, Page 3
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