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rabbits will not get through. The fencing need not be as high as that for 

 the pen, wire 24 inches high, or more, bHng suitable. The wings should 

 be as long as they can be made. One mile is not too long, but a shorter 

 length should catch many rabbits. These wings bad to a small opening, 

 D, in the pen. The people in the drive form a semi-circle in front of the 

 pen and wings, as shown by the small circh, E. The distance apart of the 

 drivers and the distance from the pen depends upon the country, whether 

 brushy or open grass land. In brushy country the drive should hi short, 

 perhaps one mile ; while in open grass land the drives may extend over 

 two to five miles. Th; people should carry tin pans, or other objects with 

 which to make a noise and frighten the rabbits along, especially when 

 beginning the drive and while the drivers are far apart. The drivers 

 should walk at about the same gait, towards the pen, as shown by the 

 arrow points. Other drivers may be formed in two flanks, one on each 

 side. These will drive towards the front of the pen and form the lines 

 C G, B G before the line E approaches them. No guns should be alloncd, 

 for these may cause accidents; but each driver should carry a light club 

 with which to kill the rabbits as they try to run through the line when 

 it closes in near the p?n. The clubs are also to be used for killing the 



rabbits in the pen. 



In some localities there are farmers who have fenced large fi:lds with 

 rabbit-proof wire fencing. In such places, these wir^ fences may be used 

 to great advantage for rabbit drives, by using the wire fence for one of 

 the wings of the drive, as shown in the following diagram : 



Fig. 3. — Fencing used for nibbit drive. 



The drivers should be placed in a semi-circle, the flank on the side B 

 driving rabbits towards the front where they will th:n be driven towards 

 A and into the- pen. It sometimes happens that there is a farm on each 

 side of the road fenced, with the corners coming near each other on oppo- 

 site sides of the road in such a way as to form the two wings, in which 

 case the pen can be put in the road as shown. The writer remembers such 

 an instance, near Cochise. 



