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FARM VERMIN, HELPFUL AND HURTFUL. 



be compatible with the other objects favouring the preserva- 

 tion of game. For young plantations, nurseries, and 

 orchards, and for the protection of individual specimens 

 of valuable species in parks, the same remedies are recom- 

 mended as against hares — viz., good fencing with wire net- 

 ting all round the base in the former cases, and encasing in 

 straw or brushwood in the latter. In putting wire netting 

 round fences, it is necessary to insert it below the level of 

 the ground, as otherwise the rabbits can burrow under it. 

 The best plan is to bend it slightly outwards at the same 

 time, to stop the rabbits from beginning to make deep 

 burrows, which would be sure to carry them past the 

 wire. 



