Animals: Cottontails

Cottontails

Motorists kill one rabbit for every mile of U. S. roadway in a year. The State Fish & Game Commission of New Jersey last fortnight announced that it had ordered 20,000 Western cottontails to replace unfortunate Eastern cottontails run over by automobiles. The Westerners will be delivered next spring.

Rabbits are found in great numbers along highways, chiefly at night. Some game commissioners think they come out of the chilly woods to lie in the warm roadside sand. Others have suggested that they find food thrown...

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