Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — “Rough on Rabbits.” [ARTICLE]

“Rough on Rabbits.”

Pasteur’s proposal to rid Australia of its rabbit plague by infecting the rabbits with chicken cholera has met with deservedly severe criticism on the ground that, as pointed out by the Medical Standard (Chicago), these lower organisms on which chicken cholera and other contagions depend develop objectionable peculiarities under Australian conditions. Another 1' renchman has discovered that a parasite which causes wasting disease in man will produce tubercular disease in hares; and it is “on the cards” that he, too, may compete for the Australian rabbit prize by introducing this disease among the bunnies. The circle will be complete when the Australian rabbit, infested wdh strongylus by the sensational Frenchman, is unsuspectingly eaten by the Australian stockman only to find himself the victim of anchylostromosis.