COST TO FARMERS
RABBITS IN DOMINION £3,000,000 IN ONE YEAR P.A. WELLINGTON, ‘ Nov. 27. The estimated loss to sheep farmers through the depredations of rabbits in 1945 was £3,000,000. This was stated by Dr K. A. Wodzicki, who, on behalf of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, has been conducting a survey of wild life in the Dominic n, before the Royal Commission on the Sheep Farming Industry to-day. Dr Wodzicki said that until more was known of the life history and ecology of animals such as rabbits, deer, goats, opossums, wild pigs and other animals, it was doubtful whether existing methods would effect any great improvement to help the industry. Fifteen rabbits ate as much in one year as one ewe, and if the 20,600,000 rabbits killed in 1945 were a third of the rabbit population of New Zealand, then the estimated total loss to sheep farmers was £3,000.000. Losses were caused by the loss of feed, fouling of the land, and serious erosion*
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26630, 28 November 1947, Page 6
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166COST TO FARMERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26630, 28 November 1947, Page 6
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