Costly Rabbits
HAT it may cost to get the last rabbit from a badly infested holding was illustrated by the experience on a 40,000-acre run in Australia. A new
manager was appointed to clean up the place after it had fallen into disrepair, no matter what the cost. Boundary fences were put in order, the holding subdivided into rabbit-proof blocks, and a campaign of extermination inaugurated. By the time the last rabbit had gone the total cost was approximately £10,000 or 5/- per acre. The sheep or the rabbits had to go. The amount spent, however, was
soon recouped from the increased carrying capacity of the land-(L. Morrison, of Lincoln College, in 3YA’s "Microphone Roundtable,’ May 8.) & * x"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 10
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118Costly Rabbits New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 10
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