23 JULY 1937, Page 17

COUNTRY LIFE

An Oversea Comment

In talking with a number of the oversea visitors who are visiting our farms, especially the grass farms, and discussing problems at Aberystwyth University, I found that they were astonished, and not a little appalled, by the number of rabbits they saw 'wherever they went. That any quadruped could be quite so numerous altogether astonished them. It happens that a great controversy is in progress over the best method of reducing the population of rabbits. That very active and ever militant body, the Animal Welfare SOciety Of London University, entered the field with a Scheme for assisting, ad hoc, officials with poison gas and attenipting the total extermination of the rabbit without the use of traps.

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