OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS
THE USEFUL HEDGEHOG I (To the Editor.) Sir, —The Acclimatisation Society is paying something for the snouts of hedgehogs. Why? Hedgehogs were brought out to keep slugs down, I believe. I know that 10 to 15 years ago I had very big slugs at “The Cliffs.” _ I suppose they were about one-third bigger than the ordinary slug, and now I have not seen one for years. I see a few of the others. Hedgehogs are good for keeping the land clean. My shepherd saw one eating cow cleaning. He was at it again the next morning. There is no doubt, judging by this, that they help to keep lambing paddocks clean. They help to keep blood-poisoning away. They should be good in the fluke country by eating the snails or whatever they are called. They eat a few larks’ eggs and young. They are so slow that they cover very little ground, and they stick to the shelter. Larks are not much good to the farmer. They live on rape and turnip leaves most of the year. Magpies eat a lot of lark eggs and young. The stoat is the lark’s worst enemy. I have seen the feathers of, I suppose, 20 to 30 larks under a heap of ironstone.—l am, etc., WM. RAYNER. “The Cliffs,” Masterton, Oct. 16.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 4
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