Cottontail Rabbits in Relation to Trees and Farm Crops

by David E. Lantz

PROTECTION OF CROPS FROM RABBITS.

Complete extermination of rabbits in any part of the United States is not desirable, even if possible. They should be reduced in numbers only sufficiently to secure comparative safety to crops, and before active wholesale destruction of the animals is attempted the possibility of crop protection by other means should be carefully considered. In many cases one of these means would probably be the more economical method.