456 EEPORT ON TEEES NOT LIABLE TO BE DESTEOYED BY RABBITS. 



8. In spite of all efforts to prevent it, rabbits destroy a large 

 area of plantation and shrubbery every year. 



9. Policies can never be made to look so sweet and neat, and 

 be kept at the same expense, with rabbits. 



10. Specimen plants cannot easily be grown to such perfec- 

 tion (even with additional expense) when protected against rabbits. 



11. The expense necessarily incurred in growing wood under 

 a head of rabbits is such as to render the investment hazardous 

 and often profitless. 



12. Those trees and plants exempt from injuries of rabbits are 

 too limited in number, too expensive to raise, and many of them 

 of too little value, when grown to their highest perfection, to 

 warrant reasonable hopes of satisfactory results from planting 

 them. 



REPORT ON TREES NOT LIABLE TO BE DESTROYED BY 



RABBITS. 



By Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie. 



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In these days of outcry by the agricultural tenantry against 

 the game laws, and their alleged pernicious administration and 

 destructive effects in protecting hares and rabbits in many 

 localities, to the deterioration and partial destruction of the field 

 crops, it is well to be reminded that the ravages of such vermin 

 are not confined, as farmers seem to imagine, to the acreage of 

 the farm alone, but that they commit other depredations quite as 

 troublesome and annoying, if not ultimately more serious, in 

 nibbling the bark and young terminal points, and so destroying, 

 year by year, the very existence of many millions of thriving, 

 newly-planted young woodlands in recently formed plantations 

 throughout the country. There is, probably, less ado made about 

 such devastations, seeing the land so ravaged is not rented, but 

 is generally in the natural occupation of the proprietor; yet 

 when it is considered that the importance of all land now-a-days 

 yielding some revenue is of considerable moment, the return 

 from the acreage under woodland and plantations becomes valu- 

 able, and it is interesting as well as instructive to inquire how 

 far, and by what means, the ravages of hares and rabbits upon 

 our plantations can be controlled, or what sorts of pines and other 

 useful timber trees moj be safely planted, with hopes of ultimate 

 commercial advantage and successful culture. 



It is during winter that the most destructive attacks of such 

 vermin are usually made, and they are then most severe upon 

 newly planted or transplanted subjects. At this season, pressed 

 to find subsistence, and with snow frequently covering any scant 

 pasturage or herbage that may exist in their neighbourhood, it is 



