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or 100 yards. It is reared up and temporarily sup- 

 ported on its whole length with stakes, the bottom 

 just touching the ground. Parallel to it another 

 length of fencing is set up, the lower part of which 

 projects inwards, and is supported by a number of 

 pieces of loose stick, propping it up every twenty feet. 

 When the rabbits come out to feed they run under 

 the first netting, the lower part of which is open, but 

 cannot pass the second ; and a man who is concealed 

 at some distance pulls a galvanised wire, which upsets 

 the whole of the sticks holding up the flap of wire, 

 which consequently falls down, and as many as 500 

 rabbits have been caught at once between the two 

 fences. 



As there are probably many landowners who would 

 prefer to lay out a warren on a less extensive plan 

 than that advocated by Mr. Simpson, it may be well 

 to quote here the experience of Mr. J. H. Leche on 

 a warren of forty acres only, as described by him in 

 The Field of February 24, 1894. He writes : — ' The 

 total acreage is about forty acres, of which seventeen is 

 grass only, with no burrows on it ; the remainder is 

 young covert, about twenty years old. Part of that 

 which is planted is sandy, and part clay subsoil ; the 

 open part is, generally speaking, strong soil. It was in- 

 closed in April, 1893, ^^^"'d when we shot it, we killed 



