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IT was hoped and expected that the long-continued drought which has prevailed throughout eastern Australia for the last six years would at least have had a good influence in subduing the rabbit pest, but such does not seem to have been the case. The rabbits, like all other living animals, have suffered severely in certain districts, but on the least mitigation of the drought they quickly recover themselves, and become as numerous and as destructive as ever. Large tracts of country formerly able to maintain sheep have been abandoned, we are told, on account of the rabbit pest, and have gone to waste in consequence of the futility of the various schemes that have been tried for the, mitigation of this frightful evil.
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"The Rabbit Pest in Australia, its Cause and its Cure." By W. Rodier, Pp. 16. (Sydney, 1902.)
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The Rabbit Pest in Australia . Nature 67, 43–44 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067043a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/067043a0