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To Protect Seed Maize from Rabbits. 



" Do your officers know of any treatroent for maize seed that would make it 

 distasteful to rabbits, bunny having learned to take the corn in the .same 

 manner as kangaroo rats do T The question occurred in a letter from a Glen 

 Innes correspondent, to whom the reply was : — 



Tlie proc<!SS used on the North Coast to protect maize planted adjacent to 

 scrubs from such animals as kangaroo rats, bandicoots, &c., is to smear the 

 seed with coal tar. This is best done by immersing the seed first of all in 

 fairl}^ warm water, and then draining off the water and quickly adding the 

 tar at the rate of al)out a small cupful to a bushel of corn. The seed should 

 be tlioi-oughly mixed with the tar so as to ensure c^very grain being coated. 

 Slaked lime or du.st can be used for quick drying and the seed is then quite 

 ready for sowing in a drill. 



Poison baits of phosphorised polhxrd laid on the ground about a week before 

 sowing ("dunnnying" or baiting without poison for a while beforeliand 

 until a good " catch " is assured) will also help considerably. 



If the rabbit follows the fui-rows along like the kangai-oo rat, it is a wise 

 precaution to oblitnrate th<' plimtcr rows by cross-harrowing. 



