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It will surprise you to know £50,000,000 damage a year is done by RABBITS
Says
Patrick Murphy
HE wild rabbits of Great Britainn have been estimated to cost farmers and land-owners £50,000,000 a year. Forty rabbits eat as much Unlike the dairy cow, grass as a good dairy cow. however, they give little in return, and they can soil the best of pastures for years to come.
There are whole areas of Wales where good fields have been turned into derelict, useless land by their activities. I know of one farm in West Sussex, one of the worst affected areas, where 2,000 rabbits were shot and trapped last winter, though the farm is only a little over 100 acres in size. They are a menace to successful farming in many parts of the country.
Apart from the direct damage to grasslands and the awful destruction they create among corn crops and garden produce, wild rabbits are one of the most fruitful causes of coccidiosis, a disease which decimates whole flocks of poultry.
Poor Man's Chicken
THERE are thousands of farmers who would be glad to see the wild rabbit utterly and completely extermina- tel from the country. A report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Agriculture (Damage by Rabbits) is at pre- sent being considered by the Ministry of Agriculture and
Hongkong Telegraph. Fisheries. One of its recommendations is the passing of legis-
THURSDAY, August 5, 1937,
THE CHOLERA OUTBREAK
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Paul Whiterun's Orchestra.
The Urban Council has taken „Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. a wise step by reviving
Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. dormant by-law designed to prevent the spread of disease F.T. Bunne Berigon Orchestra. through the sale, principally by hawkers, of certain foodstuffs. cholera has
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28567- Hum A Waliz. Waltz
Hold Me Tight. Waltz.
lation which would enable county councils to order the destruc- tion of rabbits on property. che
The wild rabbit is, however, the poor man's chicken, and its extermination would do away with a great supply of cheap and palatable food. There are vast areas of farming country, par- ticularly in the west, where rabbits are counted upon to pay the rent. These farmers would, undoubtedly, oppose the iden of ex- terminating the rabbit.
In this difference of circumstance and opinion lies the chief diflculty of curtailing the rabbit menace. Some of these farm- ers let the rabbiting on their land for a good sum every year. Others employ professional trappers, and still more snare and trap the rabbits on their own land.
Heavy Imports LAST winter, in most parts of the country, good rabbits fetched 12s, a dozen in the open market. In the shops poor people could buy a good! and nourishing meal, suffi-
dition a good skin would sell for
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The Trapper
There are four simple methods of killing rabbits for marketing-shooting; suaring, trapping, and netting.
trouble.
other.
Good rabbits
fetch 12s. a dozen in the
exhaust gas.
Others drive the from their cars into the holes, and in this way thousands of rabbits have been destroyed.
The farmers who oppose the complete extermination of rab- bits are vastly more numerous
the than those who support it, and
open market.
in their opposition they are up- held by most of the fox-hunting folk,
Unfortunately, it often hap- pens that the farmer who makes
Blow To Hunting an income from his rabbits is
HE extermination of THE frequently the neighbour of the
1117- The reduction of rabbits to
rabbits would man who would gladly see them exterminated and who regards numbers that could be controlled doubtedly upset fox-hunting. A then ny a nest and a source of would not be difficult if farmers fox accounts for some 500 rab- The shooting and trap- pulled together in this manner, bits a year. If rabbits were re- ping by the one farmer drives but in present circumstances moved the depredations of the the animals on to the land of the nothing but complete extermina- fox would fall far more heavily tion could curtail their menace on the poultry-keeping section of farmers, and in the late winter Co-operation between these to good husbandry.
The killing of rabbits for mar- and early spring the losseg two sets of farmers in all areas. is the only real solution of the keting purposes is simple. There among lambs would be consider- four popular methods ably higher. Indeed, the de- problem, whether that co-opera- are tion is made compulsory by law shooting, snaring, trapping, and struction of the rabbit might well cause a stoppage of hunting or whether it is a matter of netting.
Netting is done with the aid in many districts. agreement between neighbours.
Hunting distributes This co-operation would be great- of ferrets. The holes leading to ly helped to the benefit of all a burrow in a bank or hedge are £20,000,000 among farmers, sad- farmers if measures were taken covered with nets. A ferret is dlers, farriers, dealers, etc.; it to curtail the huge supplies of then put into one of the holes, also brings a great deal of money rabbits imported from overseas, and the rabbits, alarmed at his to the small traders in the towns Such measures would automa- approach, rush to the exits and and villages in hunting country. Consequently, the farmers who tically cause the price of home- are caught in the nets. killed rabbits to rise and would In recent years farmers who are asking for the utter destruc- consequently make it worth the have lost patience with the tion of the wild rabbit are con-
Д minority, but of rabbite and with fined to while of all farmers to keep their menace rabbits under control by their neighbours-have taken to minority whose interests are the present systematic catching and market- pumping gas into the burrows vitally involved in and warrens on ing.
their land, uncontrolled menace.
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Hence the measures which are These are now being taken. aimed at preventing the sale, without written permission, of eut or peeled fruit, ice-cream, non-aerated drinks containing fruit juices and herbs other than tea, and certain types of jelly which are freely hawked about the streets. The last serious outbreak of cholera, in 1932, took a heavy toll in life, and it was then found that the guf- ferers were mainly from the submerged classes who could ay to give no intelligent clue how they contracted the disease. The same is probably true of the When we present epidemic. consider the manner in which doubtful commodities are offered for sale in our streets, and the conditions under which they are prepared and stored, it is sur- prising that there are not more frequent outbreaks of serious disease in the summer months. On the principle that prevention Press and by leaflet, of the the steps putting into effect of the by- is better than cure,
Next day the manager happened to shift. This men, a character, had a afterwards they obtained the coal in now to be taken are more than laws will not suffice. What is
needed is continuous and definite pass through the section, and in-saying that he dug graves for other thefts the miners do not, In If this on a huge tomb when he was at work Many who are scrupulously honest was finding things. "Man,
worked on the night shift.) It while working are driven by want gests itself that, rather than advice, through every available quired of the new man na to how he people through the day and worked time of strikes, regard as criminal EURASIA AVIATION CORPORATION justified, but the thought sug-
await an actual outbreak of dia- medium, to the public of the wis a snaw-hole there's been see is a curious coincidence that he was to do these things.
In a certain little Lothian village recovered only after many days,
lived a
many colliers, and dur- good ease, it would, be wiser to bring types of foodstuff and drinks heavy frost through the nicht," came killed in the plt and his body was
Another story concerns the man
One summer night this worthy wusing the last big strike they stole a a railway these by-laws into automatic that should be avoided. In operation every year during the Shanghai, during the hot months, who went to a manager for a start, digging deep when the turned up number of hams from
The pollee knew who had and was assured that a good place of aummer, the authorities
was emply in a section of the pit some ancient bones, evidently those station. hot season. The authorities do
undertake considerable health Together they went down the pit to of someone buried many years be- stolen them, but had nothing else The bones were thrown out to work upon. It was decided to not intend at the moment to
Inspect the place in question. The fore. institute harsh and immediate propaganda along these lines,ms, was very small hurdly more of the grave, and hardly had they have a house-to-house search,
In one house a woman lay in bed alighted ere a large black retriever places, The
baby, evidently very could application of the precautions particularly for the prevention than a foot in many
and made off with it. In close pur young-its round pink face decided upon, as due notice is of cholera. The example might usual question is to tie tor rates dog sized one, a large thigh-bone, nursing
was asked, and the figure given was it come the grave-digger brandish- be seen peeping out of one corner ing his shovel. Down the sole street of the shawl but the mother covered well be followed here, coupled, very small. usually given in such enses.
went the dog, close behind the man it up at seeing the police. A little None the less, it is to be hoped as we have suggested, with the
pre-drew, and went next door that effective propaganda mea yearly application of special
intent on rescuing the bont. Finally ashamed perhaps, the police with- the dog turned into its owner's pre- One of the hams was never re- measures during the summer Bures will be taken to combat
months. In these matters, it is the obvious danger to the com- munity.
notification, wise to err, if at all, on the side Mere through the columns of the of safety.
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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure up to October, 1937, on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $28,000, against which the Income to date is $20,000.
The Society asks for the balance of
Hon. Treasurers:
$5,000
Mr. D. BLACK, C.A.,
c/o Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming,
6 Des Voeux Road, Central.
Mr. KWOK CHIAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo China,
Hongkong.
June 28, 1987.
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sold one. "Stingy!"; In one village during a coal strike COLLIERY manager was up, he's stingy,"
the local policeman had, unlike some proached by a miner who wanted ejaculated another. "If he wis a
of his colleagues. been giving the stri kers a great deal of bother, and they a working place in a certain section. ghost he widna gie ye a fricht!"
inquired as to the A rather grim joke becurred in He, of course,
remember
were unable to steal coal. One night amount paid per ton. The rate was Fife some readers may none too large, and, saying so, the its occurrence. It took place many some of the boys" went to his coal removed the conl, swept the floor man inquired if the coal was "ensy-years ago in a small mining village shed, which was outside his bouse, The seeker for work was where the grave-digger was a mines, with a brush, and laid a piece of assured that the place was a "snow- the digging of graves occupying his noleum on the floor. It is said that golten."
attention when he had worked his
the reply.
Once more the collier bent down, and peered closely at the conl-face Then he turned, inquiring, "Dae ye think there's a ton in it?"
Such
misses public-house. Eventually, reinforced by a drink, the grave covered, for the new-born baby was A new under-manager arrived at digger returned to his labours with the ham, carefully wrapped in a a Fife pit, and several of the men the cause of the bother clutched in woollen shawl.
d. C. M. were discussing him. "I suppose his hand.
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