PROFITS FROM PEST.
Farmers and the Rabbit Nuisance. “The elimination of the. rabbit pest has become quite a substantial industry in some parts of New Zealand,” said the Rev. Clyde Carr, of Timaru, as president of the Federated Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, recently. “It really pays the farmer better to let the rabbit pest become a pest and then eliminate the nuisance than to cultivate his ground. In Seddon’s day legislation was passed to (Jeal with that sort of thing, but I don’t know whether it is a dead letter now.”
In parts of Southland, said Mr Carr, farmers let the outer parts of their lands to trappers and reserved the inner area for themselves. The shrew r d rabbits that left the trappedover areas and came in to the farmer’s reserve stayed there until winter prices made it well worth the farmer’s while to engage in the elimination of the pest himself. And, properly managed, pest elimination was highly profitable to him.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 388, 20 March 1937, Page 2
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167PROFITS FROM PEST. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 388, 20 March 1937, Page 2
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