[Editor: This brief article, about rabbits and hares destroying crops, was published in The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People’s Advocate (Braidwood, NSW), 10 September 1901.]
Rabbits and hares at Nerriga.
The “Nowra” Leader writes:— Rabbits are fast becoming a serious nuisance at Nerriga. Crops planted some time ago which had grown to three or four inches high are now eaten down by rabbits to the surface of the land.
Farmers are procuring large quantities of wire netting with which to protect their crops. During the last four weeks over 800 hares and rabbits have been destroyed about Nerriga.
Hares are also very numerous and destructive in that district, but rabbits are proving as destructive to fruit trees as hares.
Source:
The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People’s Advocate (Braidwood, NSW), 10 September 1901, p. 2
Also published in:
Goulburn Evening Penny Post (Goulburn, NSW), 12 September 1901, p. 4
The South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (Wollongong, NSW), 21 September 1901, p. 18
Editor’s notes:
Nerriga = a small town in south-eastern New South Wales; it is located south-east of Goulburn, south-east of Nowra, and north-east of Braidwood
See: “Nerriga, New South Wales”, Wikipedia
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