. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ble to disease than the rabbit, with regular and careful attention,such as has been pointed out; so that any sudden and accidental disorder is best and most cheaply remediedby a stroke behind the ears. But want of care must be remedied, if at all, by an opposite conduct, andimproper food exchanged for its contrary. Thus, if rabbits become pot-bellie
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ble to disease than the rabbit, with regular and careful attention,such as has been pointed out; so that any sudden and accidental disorder is best and most cheaply remediedby a stroke behind the ears. But want of care must be remedied, if at all, by an opposite conduct, andimproper food exchanged for its contrary. Thus, if rabbits become pot-bellied, in the common phrase,from being fed on loose vegetable trash, they must be cured by good hard hay and corn, ground malt orpeas, or any substantial or absorbent food. Their common liver complaints are incurable, and when suchare put up to fatten, there is a certain criterion to be observed. They will not bear to be pushed beyonda moderate degree of fatness, and should be taken in time, as they are liable to drop off suddenly. Thedropsy and rot must be prevented, as they are generally incurable; nor is a rabbit worth the time andpains of a probable cure. 7364. The hare (I,epus timidus L., fig. 910.). if taken young, may be tamed and do-910. mesticated, and has occasionally beennursed by a cat. Sonnini the naturalist,and Cowper the poet, had hares in acomplete state of domestication. As thefur of this animal is of greater value forhat-making than that of the rabbit, itwould be a very desirable circumstanceif it could be substituted for that animalin warrens. Its flesh would certainly bedeemed preferable, and in general it is a large animal. It lives on the same sort of foodas the rabbit, produces generally three young ones at a time, and breeds at least threetimes in a year. It is not improbable that in some situations, where the soil is dry andpoor, a hare warren or pack might be found to answer; the price in the metropolis beingnever less than ten times that of rabbits. 7365
Size: 2626px × 951px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1871
