LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



Now the rabbits, when full grown, cannot jump over, nor when small 

 can they crawl through our fence, but they can burrow underneath it ! 

 To prevent this skim the soil off with a spade for a foot in width all 

 round the lower edge of the fence, and lay a length of wire netting 

 here of 2-in. mesh, and then cover it over with earth, after tying it 

 .to the lowest upright netting (D, fig. 85). 



FIG. 86. 



'This underground wire should always be attached as a separate 

 -piece ; it can then be of large mesh, and hence a cheap material; 

 and when fixed in this way it will be more serviceable, as if vou bend 

 netting its galvanised coating will crack off at the angle thus formed, 

 and, the wire underneath it being then -exposed, it will soon rust 

 through when laid in the earth. 



FIG. 



The different lengths of netting will have to be laced together 

 with thin tying wire to the strand wires, or else hitched at intervals 

 of about a yard with short pieces, twisted in and out of the meshes. 



It always takes a long time to connect two edges of a wire netting 

 or to attach one edge to a strand wire, and if the manufacturers 

 would supply us with (S) hooks by the gross that could be closed with 

 pincers, in one size for hooking the netting together, and in a larger- 

 size for hanging it to a strand wire (as shown in fig. SO), they would; 

 save us much labour, and a wire fence could be very quickly erected 

 or removed (fig. 87). 



