The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-21
MAKE
! PROFIT FROM RABBITS
Exports Of Carcasses and Skins
FL Now Amount TO More Than
,ooo.o 900 Yearly.
RABBIT TRAPPERs' UNION
Many Families Who Have Engaged in
the Shipping Business Have Made
as Much as $50 to 500 Per
Week from Venture.
From the chicago Chrontele.

From the Chtoa go Chronicle.
Sydney, Australia, Aug. by the irony
Of circumstances, just at the Tune When
DR.. Danysz, the famous French bacteria
1ogist, has arrived in Sydney With ms
tubes of Observation-Disclosures mi
icrobes which he thinks Will obliterate
the rabbit pest in Australia Ny the spread
of a contagious 1d;sease-the rabbit Is .se-
coming a valuable commercial asset One
exporter estimates that already 1T brings
SlO,QDo,00o a year to the commonwealth,
but G. G. Lance, who WITS nou long ago
the commercial agent In London for New
sEouth Wales. prefers tc put the figures
At 81, 5A, 600.
H The Industry, it is tr be remembered,
Is still in swaddling clothes, but Judging
Efron the Development of the last few
years, the S7,s0o,W o of today should quickly
grow into many millions. There are inn
nlense possibilities ahtad. But. Of course,
s4lere Is Dr. Danysz 10 be reckcned With.
A. Is exceedingly doubtful, however,
whether he will be permitted to proceed
dHany length with his experiments. Apart
Eram the -eXisAng tear that Ike will set
Moose u disease which may be dangerous
NO human beings and to other forms of
animal life there is d strong feeling that,
with the great and increasing demands
jHor the careasses and skins of rabbits. the
4 tfodent will, in the ordinary course of
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sDSer, 1T is coming to be recognized that
mot only will the industry bring millions
Of dollars to Australia. annually but that
ut will afford profitable employment to
% vast army of men. For this reason the
slabor parties, federal and stata,, are hit
aterly opposed to DR.. Danssz and his
Acheme.
Rabbit TrapPers Form Union.
M Already tho pastoralists arc complain
elng of a scarcity OF rural labor. They are
MO longer able to obtain the services o.
.able-bodied men for $3.50 Il week and their
h.kecp." For rabbit trapping has of a
sudden become a remuneratiue profession
,and 1T les characteristic of conditions here
that within the last few days a rabbit
;trappers' union has been formed. The
Freezing and export firms IN sydney and
Melbourne are sending hundreds of men
away into the country ever.y week to dis
,tricts whore the local supply of trappers
lis Insufficient, and thus There is a steady
absorption of the metropolitan unemploN-
ed. Likely applicants are provided with
straps on time payment and the newcomers
nre placed at first beside experienced men,
who teach them the routine. At Narrabri,
Eunnedah, Tunut, Dubbo and some other
places good trappers are earning, accord
ing to ONE authority, $25 a week. Another
authority puts it at S4.25 or $3.50 a day.
Men with young families 10 assist them
E1o,even better. In this connection the re-
.aport OF a country inspector of state schools
gto the public instruction department of
New South Wales Is significant. AT the
present juncturc," he sa!s, lit is = diff
ticult task to get children re DO any home
lessons. The high price al rabbit skins
Induces parents to employ their children
TOR half the night in trapping rabbits.
Many families in this district are earning
rs much as $50 to 800 per week at the
business. In many of the towns there is
q wood famine it being impossible to
E-l aa ,.. -injt1, 70 wv. e-t. ts,,lA' l,p u"
ling wood when they can earn so much at
trapping rabbits. From This cause also
the attendance at country schools during
:he quarter now ending WIFI he greatly re-
,duced."
Unemployed Problem Solved.
a piect OF further evidence is supplied
iby Mr.. Schley. the director of labor in
New South Wales. In his last report to
The minister he quotes such paragraphs as
the following from the reports; of his vari-
.ous country correspondents:
'"The off-season, but no such thing as un-
~ Employed. Usual resorts OF ioafers desert
u. All gone rabbiting, the money earned
1t which is likely to increase the rates of
(wases demanded by roustabouts. etc.
= Spending capacity of the working classes
greater than for years past"
Very good. No unemployed. All UNI
skillcd labor absorbed in rabbit-trapptng y
The rabbit industry has ahsofped all the
~ genuin unemployed
N 'Great demand fer farm hanls. Mosttlo-
CHI laborers are now rabbiiirrg ana all
state that their earnings are good"
ANY men previously unemployed are
now rahbit-trapping and earning good
money
mo local unemployed and very few tray
elers (swagmen)."
Labor very scarce. Demand much in
excess of supply owing to the large mum
8per OF mcn and boys employed rabbit
Etng.'
What a contrast to the story OF one short
year ago. Then from every quarter and
&from the same correspondents came ac-
counts of unemployed and distress. The
Australian has at last been persuaded thai
even the rabbit has its uses.
Carcasses Are Valuable.
So mich for the workers point of view.
8The Individuals and companies who are
finding the capital have equal reason to De
satisfied. The state government of New
II South Wales and Victoria have provided
cold storage ecommodation in Sydney and
#Melbourne respectively, but Of late this
has been found ridiculously inadequate
and private enterprise is experimenting ii.
Among the firms that supply cold storage
in Sydney are the Fresh Food and Ice
n company. turning out 1-S0o crates a day
the Metropolitan Ice company and the In
land Freezing company-Which has branch
81 works in several country c~enters-turrling
Iout LOO crates a day. In addition the gov
ernrnen cold Storage department turns
II out SEQ crates a day and there are a large
y number of smaller storers and freezers
with daily outputs varying from 100 crates
Il to 200.
There arc twenty-four rabbits in a crate
land recent prices paid in London range
N@irom Sl.S01a per crate, according to the
3c!asses In which the carcasscs are graded
#Sby government graders. Considerable con
S9Elgnments are sent regularly from Br.s.
@bane and Adelaide and these, like those
@AAtrom Sydney and Melbourne, go to the
MUn.ted Kingdom. South Africa. Hona
##kons. Japan and the Philippines. 1t is
aEsnoted that the exported carcasses are in
KBpected and graded under official super
Vision.
I'll Great Profits in Skins.
Ya But the profit accruing from fozen car
passes is only a part OF the whole profit
sSGhere is good money in canned rabbit and
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