OPOSSUM PEST
FRUIT FARMERS’ PROBLEM TOURING TRAPFER Opossums may make good pets and delight the hearts of children, but fruit farmers in the Albany-Silverdale district are inclined to look with no indulgent eye on their gambols. A walk through any of the orchards in the district will show signs that, in his search for fresh buds, the opossum will climb out on thin branches and break them. Even if this does not happen, the loss of buds and, consequently, of fruit, is very annoying. Every now and then, the farmer, goaded beyond endurance by the depredations of this pest, will take his rifle and shoot a dozen or so in a night, but still the work of destruction goes on. The only satisfactory method of dealing with the trouble is to have a trapper touring the farms and stopping for a week or two at each. It is intended to adopt this system next season.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 9
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155OPOSSUM PEST Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 9
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