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keeping up the fences and catching the rabbits, for 

 whose wholesale and painless capture the author gives 

 an ingenious and simple device in use at Wortley Park, 

 there is little expenditure either on labour or food ; and 

 the cost of protecting the warren against poachers need 

 only extend through the spring and summer, before the 

 young stock has been caught, for no one would think it 

 worth while to attempt to catch the few rabbits left to 

 breed in the winter. The only point of which we have 

 to complain in Mr. Simpson's statement is, that his 

 figures are less full and detailed than could be wished 

 in what is otherwise a very suggestive and practical 

 work. Rabbits are clearly in demand ; and the time is 

 ripe for such an experiment as he suggests, which would 

 probably yield a fair profit until the " rabbit pest " in 

 the New World is converted into a source of wealth 

 by some gigantic " canning " industry for the supply of 

 the English market. 



