. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 1074 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. I'art III. system of management. The produce is the largest on new lands; however, much of
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 1074 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. I'art III. system of management. The produce is the largest on new lands; however, much of the profit must always depend on situation, so as to be near goml markets. These animals are in what is termed season from'the end of October to the beginning of January, in which period the best skins are produced : of course a large pro|)ortion of them is killed in this short time. The farmer often sustains great loss in what by the purchasers are called half skins, quarter skins, and racks, sixteen of which are only consi- dered as a whole skin. The rabbits are disposed of by the hundred, six score couple being considered as an hundred. ;)1. The breeding mtd rearing of tame rabbits is carried on in hutches or stores of boxes placed in sheds or apartments of any kind secure from vermin. We shall give a view of the practice as to rabbitry and furniture, varieties, breeding, feeding, and produce. ;)2. The rabbit-house should be particularly dry and well ventilated, as these quadrupeds are very sub- ject to the rot and to liver complaints like sheep. 7333. The huts or hutches {fig. 908.) are boxes or chests, eighteen inches or more high, and from two and 908 a half to three feet wide, generally divided in two (d and b], and the rooms thus formed communicating by a sliding door, the use of which is to confine the rabbits in the inner division (a), whilst the outer, which has a wire door I -^ L Aw^ 909. {fig. 909.), is cleaning. Generally these luitches arc placed
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