Abstract
ONCE again the R.S.P.C.A. rabbit week in Great Britain (October 6-13) is being made the occasion of an effort to obtain support for the Bill promoted by the University of London Animal Welfare Society to prohibit the import, manufacture, sale, exposure for sale, possession, custody or use of steel traps or gins. This Bill has now reached the final stages of drafting, and will be introduced early in the new session. Viscount Tredegar will introduce it in the House of Lords, while Mr. Lint on Thorp has consented to take charge of it when it reaches the House of Commons. Apart from the humanitarian aspect of the steel trap problem, there is another which assumes national importance, inasmuch as it has a vital bearing on agriculture. To agriculturists, the rabbit is a pest, and its extermination would be of great benefit to farmers. Paradoxical as it may seem, the steel trap is beginning to be suspect as an exterminatorand this in districts which have hitherto been wedded to its use. In certain portions of Carmarthenshire and in Pembrokeshire, traps were not used before the War, and rabbits were kept down by other means; since the introduction of the steel trap, these districts are overrun with rabbits.
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