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taken to graze cattle on when the state of the market 

 made it desirable to keep them for a few weeks before 

 being turned into beef into a rabbit farm, and that with 

 the sale which he could secure, it answered well. This 

 is a new departure in English rural economy. 



The proverb that " what is one man's poison may 

 be another man's meat " could not be better illustrated 

 than by a comparison of an interesting little book on 

 The Wild Rabbit in a New Aspect^ by Mr. Simpson, 

 Wood Agent to Lord WharnclifFe's estate, near Shef- 

 field, with the mass of rabbit literature which has 

 appeared in Colonial Blue-books and Reports during 

 the past few years. No one who is at all familiar with 

 the feelings of resentment, irritation, and despair which 

 find their way into Colonial prints on this subject can 

 doubt that the character of the rabbit needs white- 

 washing badly. It is said that any person convicted 

 of bringing the wild rabbit to any port of Cape Colony 

 would be lynched as certainly as a Negro murderer of 

 a White in the Southern States of America. In New 

 Zealand, the sheep-farmer drives from one log-cabin 

 to another on his " run " with a cartful of cats in 

 cages, which are deposited at each, and taught to earn 

 a living by keeping down the rabbit-plague. The 

 demand for cats, fostered by the increase of the rabbits, 

 even disturbs the domestic circle, when hearth-rug 

 favourites of known home-keeping habits mysteriously 



1 The Wild Rabbit in a New Aspect ; or, Rabbit Warrens that 

 Pay. By J. Simpson, Wood Agent, Wortley Hall, Sheffield. 

 London : Blackwood and Sons. 



