. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. re-sults. There are different colors, — black,yellow, steel-blue, etc. The essential thingis to choose precisely the species whichwill improve their descendants and yet keepas near as possible to the prototype. Evenin Holland this indigenous rabbit has manyadmirers, who are encouraged by a clubfounded for the purpose, and by the prom-ise of very high prizes at the shows. As yetit has been found impossible to raise a breedof which the young shall be uniform in theirmarkings. The Dutch rabbit is not particularabout its food and
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. re-sults. There are different colors, — black,yellow, steel-blue, etc. The essential thingis to choose precisely the species whichwill improve their descendants and yet keepas near as possible to the prototype. Evenin Holland this indigenous rabbit has manyadmirers, who are encouraged by a clubfounded for the purpose, and by the prom-ise of very high prizes at the shows. As yetit has been found impossible to raise a breedof which the young shall be uniform in theirmarkings. The Dutch rabbit is not particularabout its food and costs very little to has produced a rabbit that shows some-what the same markings, but is half as heavyagain. The Brabant rabbit gives excellent meatand is exported in great numbers to Russian rabbit is most curiously is all white except at its extremities, thenose, ears, paws, and tail being jet-black. The. A Russian Rabbit blacker these extremities the greater the fur is very thick and much in demand bymerchants. It is one of the smaller speciesand is also called the Himalaya rabbit becauseimmense numbers are found in the mountainsof that name. It is everywhere admired and RABBITS 259 is often raised solely as a decorative animal. It cannot be too highly recommended for its meat; it is very prolific and the young rabbits make a delicious stew. At birth th(.-\- arc ]iini<, the white conies later, and the black fur does not appear until the\ are four months old. At six months they are in their full beauty ; at the end of a year and a half they lose it, because by that time the black begins to turn a rusty brown. To preserve this fine color the hutches must be kept in dark stables, away from the action of the sunlight. This is one of the most agreeable rabbits to raise. The tricolor Japan rabbitis very like the tricolor (other-wise called tortoise-shell)cat and is the product
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