Cracking Read!

[EDDIE B 3,120]

Lads some new content added to my mates online library. Your sure to enjoy this one. MAFF News letter 1958, sent out to all their pesties, stamped confidential. It covers all sorts including Myxomatosis, tunnel trapping squirrel, The Fenn trap, open trapping for rabbits, and lots more. Enjoy!

 

http://pest-contol-papers.boards.net/thread/99/1958-snapshot

 

O, and don't forget, there is a whole library of content there, full of interesting reading, with new content added all the time. Here's the link to the main page.

 

 

http://pest-contol-papers.boards.net/

Edited September 30, 2017 by EDDIE B

[3175darren 1,093]

Worth a read that

[The one 8,397]

i love reading all the old stuff like that then look at all the restraints that have come in since then

[micky 3,325]

Not red it yet other than the IMBRA trap............15 shillings = 75 pence

 

 

In 1961 that 15 Shillings would have bought you 18 pints of Shipstones Best Bitter.

 

Six packets of Fags [20s] Park Drive , Woodbines , or Players Weights .

 

30 Bus journeys into Town, the current price of a bus trip to to town is £2 . 75 .

 

I do not know how much a pint of Beer is in a Pub but i think 20 Park Drive costs a Tenner .

 

And if you bought a dressed Chicken off of my Mam it would set you back 7 shillings = 35 pence .

[Phil Lloyd 10,736]

Just figured who your mate is Eddie B...

We sure are indebted to him, for making this priceless Data available.

Seen a fair bit of it before, but I never tire of looking at details of what might best be termed, the 'Heyday of British Trapping'...

The Grey Squirrel has always been a major problem for the Forestry Commission guys and a pioneer of the methods of trapping them was Fred Courtier.

I have spent time with Fred and he was a mine of information,..he was affectionately known at one time, as Mr. Squirell

 

Been at it, real heavy on the wasp nests this season,..and compared to a lot of other less fortunate pesters, I have done pretty well...

 

However, I am now a wee bit fed up with that old game, cannot wait to get back out, into the beautiful woods and fields with the traps.

 

All the best, Phil.

[micky 3,325]

How can i make the pages bigger ,? the print is to small for me.

[EDDIE B 3,120]

How can i make the pages bigger ,? the print is to small for me.

Sorry micky. Can i ask, are you on a phone or computer? If it's a phone then hold down image and it brings you into imageshack, hold down on it again and you can enlarge the image.

 

On computer, simple press "control" then tap "+" till its at the desired size to read easily.

 

Hope this helps.

[micky 3,325]

Thanks Eddie . My Grandfather George Stacy was involved in the eradication of the Rabbits that were immune to the virus in the 50s , he was one of a team that caught live rabbits for testing before the exterminators moved in .It was a very large scale exercise run along military lines, its a pity they done such a good job .