A RABBIT FENCE ON THE BARKER ROAD NEAR GEEN OSMOND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA 



More than one hundred thousand miles of rabbit fences had to be built to put a check 

 to their ravages. It is said that they were once so numerous that three million were poisoned 

 at a single water-hole in one of the drought years. At some places the paths they wore in 

 going down to the Darling River are declared by C. E. W. Bean, author of ''On the Wool 

 Track," to be two feet deep (see page 542). 



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