Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — Snakes to Eat the Rabbits. [ARTICLE]

Snakes to Eat the Rabbits.

Among the many strange and astoun d fng propositions for the settlement o the rabbit question in Australia, one o the latest comes from a genius in South Australia, says the St. James Gazette, to turn a number of carpet snakes loose among the rabbits, which would, it is asserted, be speedily eaten up by the reptiles. The correspondent also furnishes some remarkable data regarding the feeding capacity of carpet snakes. When from 5 feet to 6 feet long they are, he says, able to eat two or three rabbits at a meal; but when 12 feet or 16 feet long they are able to eat six rabbits. Anticipating inquiry as to what would happen if the snak s became more numerous than the rabbits, he proposes that carpet snakes of one kind only shall be used, and after eating all the rabbits the snakes would then proceed to eat each othar. Census returns show that there are 11,488,318 dwellings in the United States.