RABBITS

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13931, 9 July 1919, Page 2

RABBITS

Tihe all-absorbing 1 topic the traveller fear's discussed as he moves about Cenitiral Otgiao just now is tlio gjetnitle aa-t of rabbiting and the prodiigious sumjg of money that are being" mad© this winter by those who devotethemselves *b ifc (says the Otfaeo Daily Times). It is agtreed by old resadontei .tfoiait never fo-r 25 years past have rabbits been so plentifujl, and it Bio happens tihait this lavish, supply of ibheim codnoides norb with low, but 1 wiltih exoeptiiomiaUy high, ruling prices. £4 10g a hundred, skins is a sitaondarvi rate, but Is or eivera Is .Id each may Sdmetiimes be obtained. Now a hard-' working rabbiter with a' pood Hack to work on will have no difficulty in, getting from 100' to 200 skins, <w in other words, frtym .£5 to £10 a day. In miaiiw (parts a boy can: go out witK feffttette amd secure from 60 to< 100 ai day as often, as tihe weather is favouraible. Thesrte are ev»m stories cvntv&nfc of miem who have secaired siifngfle-handed as ma.ny as 400 ra.bbiita an.' tliedr .traps in a ra^rht., but this, if true, must reip-reseftt the ex+rteime upward limaib of- what; is pos slble in the most favotmablo ciroumRfiances- Ag manxy o s 3000 raibbits haive been known to have been 1 taken. off a 1000-acire Mock in a few weeks' time; and a well known rurc-ho-lder of lomip; experience asserts quite cionfidlent-ly ithait two men who have been trapping on bis- 7000 ■ acres reoemitly have taken oonsiderably mone ■Kmiey from his rum tshas sien«K>n tlhain- * ne bias. In it to be wondered ait tihaiti • with raibbtters counitang' their earn- # i'ngg mi pouradg per day Central OtasfO! famreng ao*e in detsipaar of secturf'naf - ploughmen or other labourer* at anything fake the auaboimary wages!