The Wild Rabbit in a New Aspect, Or, Rabbit-Warrens That Pay: a Record of ...
The Wild Rabbit in a New Aspect, Or, Rabbit-Warrens That Pay: a Record of ...
John Simpson (Wood-Agent, Wortley Hall.)
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As often as otherwise there is far more cover than pasture, and far more than is needed for sport or any other purpose. In many such warrens the number of rabbits might be at once more than doubled or trebled by a little judicious care in the way in- dicated, always provided that lime, salt, or other manure is also given. Digitized by LjOOQ IC I07 CHAPTER XII. ENEMIES OF THE RABBIT, DISEASES, ETC. The enemies of the rabbit are poachers, foxes, stoats and weasels, cats, rats, owls, and hawks. Th...e four first named are the worst. Rats are not trouble- some unless Indian corn be scattered about, and hawks and owls confine their depredations to the very smallest rabbits. Poachers, — If anything is likely to destroy the rabbit-poacher s occupation, it is the warren system as here prac- tised. The poacher likes to see rabbits Digitized by LjOOQ IC io8 The Wild Rabbit. in every covert, coppice, and clump of bushes. His attention, when at work, is about equally divided between the keepers and the rabbits.
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