. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. rlands, and Aus-tralia. The English working-man cannot do without therabbit stew which forms hisSunday dinner. Since thefounding of the Dutch associ-ation in 1897 the breeding ofrabbits in Holland has becomeso extensive that in 1902breeders were able to sendtwo million dollars worth tothe English market. I. Breeding and RaisingThe rabbit is not particularabout its food and can be keptat small cost. Yet, if personswish to succeed, care and at-tention are necessary. Rabbits well cared forare not to be despised as food. They requ
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. rlands, and Aus-tralia. The English working-man cannot do without therabbit stew which forms hisSunday dinner. Since thefounding of the Dutch associ-ation in 1897 the breeding ofrabbits in Holland has becomeso extensive that in 1902breeders were able to sendtwo million dollars worth tothe English market. I. Breeding and RaisingThe rabbit is not particularabout its food and can be keptat small cost. Yet, if personswish to succeed, care and at-tention are necessary. Rabbits well cared forare not to be despised as food. They require,first of all, good quarters, which are seldom giventhem. In Europe workingmen and peasants usu-ally keep them in filthy hutches often filled withmanure. Instead of cleaning these hutchesweekly, the owners merely throw inhandful of fresh sense shouldteach them the im-possibility of keep-ing animals healthyunder such condi-tions. In these samehutches the femalesive birth to their young,and it is not surprising that thelittle ones die in great numbers. A Dark Silver Rabbit centuries it has been carried on in France andBelgium, where the rabbit is commonly usedfor food. In Germany there was no serious attemptat breeding rabbits until after the War of 1870,when the German soldiers saw the attentiongiven to the industry by French-men, and the profits itafforded, whereupon,on their returnhome, they beganto import Frenchrabbits, whichwere much largerthan the little Ger-man animals found here and there on farms. Associations A P.\iR OF
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