Country Life
By IAN NIALL C 4 AN you tell me who is responsible for the removal of the carcases of diseased and decaying rabbits now that myxomatosis has done its deadly work?' writes a correspondent who lives in Northumberland. 'Last week I took a favourite walk around the edge of the moor, down a lane and across the fields, and passed over one hundred dead rabbits lying on or close to the path. Far worse than any "litter lout's" luncheon papers is the sickening sight of these rotting bodies. Farmers and gardeners have been asked to bury their dead, and are doing so here to a commendable extent, but the lanes and moors are now spoiled for rambles by so many bodies left unburied. Can the local authorities be called upon to rid the moors and lanes of these blemishes?' Wherever the rabbit plague has done its work, one comes across the bodies of victims, and it seems to me that the local authority responsible for the area in which common land lies should be under the obligation of keeping it clean.
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