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in a wonderful way attract them from a long way off. 

 You may calculate on a hundred does producing a 

 thousand rabbits for the gun in the autumn if the 

 spring and summer are fairly dry. 



There is no fear of any disease or lack of rabbits 

 to shoot at if you act as I advise. 



After you have thinned your rabbits down for the 



<>n, never fail to dig out and destroy any large 

 and much-galleried burrows, as from overcrowding, 

 these are sure to be tainted and unhealthy, and likely 

 to givt- disease to any new occupants. 



When you introduce a fresh stock, turn the live 

 rabbits into the burrows at night ; on no account 

 turn them adrift by day, or they may wander about 

 for a week before they go to ground, and, if they can 

 do so, may even leave the locality altogether. 



To save rabbits from being netted by poachers, 

 scatter clippings from hedges, and branches of thorn, 

 broadcast round the fences of the woods from which 

 the rabbits come out to feed, as this will prevent any 

 nets being erected at night to intercept and thus catch 

 the animals in the open as they are driven to their 

 burrows from their feeding spots. It is only on 

 smooth clean ground, such as short grass, that 

 poachers can use nets with success. 



