Very often before going with the ferrets, people send a man or two a few hours previously to chop and clear the bushes.

The effect is that the rabbits will not bolt freely.

They hear the men chopping, and the vibration of the earth as they clumsily climb over the banks, and will not come out till absolutely forced.

If it is done at all, it should be done a week beforehand.

That was why Little John grumbled at my chopping though he knew it was necessary.
To set up a rabbit net you must arrange it so that it covers the whole of the mouth of the hole, for if there is any opening between it and the bank the rabbit will slip through.