. Rabbit culture and standard; a complete and official standard of all all the rabbits. nglish Hare, and fromits Belgian origin. It has, however, no blood relation-ship or affinity to lepus timidus (common Hare,) but isto all intents and purposes, a rabbit. Technically, thenthe Belgian is named Hare by courtesy, and is a rabbit infact, the English wild Hare being the pattern that hasstood for fanciers of that country as an ideal towardwhich they have directed their breeding since its intro-duction from Belgium. With all this idealism, however,the Belgian will never be an exact likeness of its
. Rabbit culture and standard; a complete and official standard of all all the rabbits. nglish Hare, and fromits Belgian origin. It has, however, no blood relation-ship or affinity to lepus timidus (common Hare,) but isto all intents and purposes, a rabbit. Technically, thenthe Belgian is named Hare by courtesy, and is a rabbit infact, the English wild Hare being the pattern that hasstood for fanciers of that country as an ideal towardwhich they have directed their breeding since its intro-duction from Belgium. With all this idealism, however,the Belgian will never be an exact likeness of its proto-type, for without the admixture of blood from the latterthere can be no more than a similarity. Belgian breeders claim, that what is now the up-bredBelgian Hare was originated by them from a cross of thewild Hare indigenous to that country, and their commonrabbit. This assertion, though, has never been provenwithin my knowledge, and I doubt if it is true. Ifthey have succeeded in mixing the blood of two distinctspecies of animals, it was going without the bounds ol 44 td O H-(. zoological probabilities, and what many have subsequentlyattempted only with failure. There are, indeed, somefeatures about our present Belgian that lend possibilityto the claim, but when one appreciates the continual con-tention against development of the persistent rabbitydewlap, there is less room for belief. Naturalists describe the wild Hare of Belgium bya fur of dark reddish color, with white belly, and weighsfrom 6 to 9 pounds. In its original type the Belgian Hare, so named, wasintroduced into England sometime about to came with the name Leporine. No immediate progresswas made by English fanciers, and it was not until somefifteen years later that attention was directed towarda specific type. In the last twenty years, however, muchadvancement was accomplished, largely accentuated bythe interest aroused throughout this country. To better appreciate the idealism toward which Bel-
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