3 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 14

A RABBIT PRESERVE.

A landowner in the South of England is this *Inter " putting down to rabbits " some three score acres. As Tbm Tulliver was " very fond of birds, that is of tlito—iViiig stones at them," so many people are very fond of rabbits, that is of killing them. You may, too, farm rabbits profitably, when and where any other form of farming shows a deficit. Whether it is right or wrong to put down land to rabbits or to adopt this form of farming is not my present reason for quoting the Southern landowner's experiment. Its purpose is to indicate how much muddled thinking there is on the subject of the rabbit, of the means of his destruction, and of the nature of the destroyers.

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