HARES, RABBITS, AND FARMERS. 2ig 



wild state, it appears that he frequently requires 

 a change of food medicinally, and for this 

 reason he may make raids upon gardens, 

 becoming almost a district visitor, if not 

 speedily repressed. For the same reason he 

 may pay visits to the young wheat adjoining 

 his cover ; but, in spite of all this, he does 

 not do one half the mischief that the farmers 

 accuse him of. I contend that rabbits can be 

 kept in cover in large quantities, without their 

 becoming a pest or nuisance to the farmers 

 and especially in large tracts of shooting that 

 are well wooded. 



Whether you keep your ground game in the 

 woods or in particular runs, you can always 

 doctor their runs. Mix oil of aniseed, oil of 

 musk, oil of thyme, and oil of spirits of tar, 

 in a bottle ; drop a few drops in the runs you 

 don't want the hares or rabbits to use, or 

 paraffin oil will do almost as well. 



The farmer can't make out how it is that 

 the rabbits won't come out in his newly-sown 

 barley when he is waiting for them with his 

 gun, but I know why it is, though I don't feel 



