Letter of the month
Talk about rabbits
e enjoyed reading Ed Cook’s concise article,, containing a lot of facts about the rabbit in October’s edition of. Even my 82-year-old grandfather said he learnt a few things. Unlike Ed, he can remember ‘pre-myxy’ Britain when the rabbit population was rampant and they were the number-one agricultural pest. He can recall cereal fields that had been so seriously browsed by the conies that there would be no crop for several feet around the perimeter. We must remember that in those days the fields were often only five acres, so this meant a heavy loss of crop (regardless whether cereal or grass) for the farmer. He said that in the spring his father would drive his car
