THE HARE AND RABBIT NUISANCE. TO THE EDITOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1266, 10 August 1880, Page 3

THE HARE AND RABBIT NUISANCE. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—Having heard from all parts of the Waikato and throughout the colony of the great destruction to fruit tree's that hares and rabbits are, in eating the bark and killing the trees, to encourage the hare throughout the colony, I will give from my experience of two years a sure remedy to prevent them from touching the bark. Two years since I purchased a lot of apple and other trees and planted them on this farm. Very soon I found about one-third of them eateu by rabbits, on some nearly all of the bark for a foot in height was gone. I took some coal tar with a paint-brush and painted every tree for about 18 inches with it. I have not had a tree eaten since by them, and I consider it a sure preventative. Those trees that were eaten the coal tar did not injure. —I am, &c, Edward Parsons. Trebatha, 6th August, 1880.

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