The first Belgian hare course of instructionTwenty lessonsComplete directions for buying, sheltering, feeding, breeding ..developing a business, a true history of the Belgian hare .. . any time by sending one ofyour best does away to be bred to a prize buck. Dont figure that you Avill put $100 into a doe and $100 into abuck, and that in six months you will have forty Belgiansv/orth $100 apiece. Such reasoning may look all right onpaper, but it is misleading. Start with as good stock as you can afford without using upall your resources. Leave a little money for ordinar
The first Belgian hare course of instructionTwenty lessonsComplete directions for buying, sheltering, feeding, breeding ..developing a business, a true history of the Belgian hare .. . any time by sending one ofyour best does away to be bred to a prize buck. Dont figure that you Avill put $100 into a doe and $100 into abuck, and that in six months you will have forty Belgiansv/orth $100 apiece. Such reasoning may look all right onpaper, but it is misleading. Start with as good stock as you can afford without using upall your resources. Leave a little money for ordinary business common sense. If you have only $10,and feel that you want to start, it is better to buy two breddoes at $5 than one at $10. In the course of a few months, youwill be able to sell meat stock enough to pay for a fancy buckor the fee of breeding a high-scoring buck to your best doe. If the Belgians which you have bought have been exposed during shipment to extraordinary variations of weather, or if they were shipped by unscrupulous dealers, they may have the snuflies (otherwise known as cabarrh, or influenza) when they arrive. If they are running at the mouth, they have the slob-. Photograph by the Author. Copyright, 1901, by the New Euglaiul B. H. NO. 1. Large doe, very fine in boue, moderately coarse in ear, well-colored feet, butavery full-breasted animal, the result of large dewlap, which should al-ways be avoided as much as possible. HOW TO BUY 23 bers. If either nose or mouth is running, or the animals aresneezing, or reiusing food, turn over these lessons until youcome to the one on diseases, and you will see how to treatthem. Belgians shipped by reputable dealers have neither thesnuffles, slobbers nor pot bellies. If your purchase shows anybad symptoms, give the dealer the benefit of the doubt and bycareful feeding for a few days strive to cure, meantime writingthe facts to the dealer of whom you purchased. As a rule,Belgians which are healthy when shipp
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