THE RABBIT PEST.
[liY TELV.CUIAPH,—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wkllixoton. Friday. Mr Bell, the New Zealand Representative on the Rabbit Commission, has forwarded a memorandum giving a resume of tho work of the commission at Sydney, on the Pasteur experiments, demonstrating clearly that fowl cholera can bo communicated to rabbits, either by feeding or injection, but were not satisfactory as to the power of the disease to spread rapidly. The commission then conducted a number of experiments which indicates that the disease is safe, as regards domestic animals, and slow to spread among rabbits, even under conditions more favourable than would be found in an open country, further experiments are going on. Pasteur's agents have asked to have trials under open country, but the commission declined for the present. Members do not expect to conclude their labours fur a long time,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2546, 3 November 1888, Page 2
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138THE RABBIT PEST. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2546, 3 November 1888, Page 2
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