. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. seful. A more superb animal can scarcelybe imagined. The fur of some of them is overfour inches long. The skins are greatly in de-mand, and all sorts of useful articles are madeof the fur, — undergarments, stockings, gloves,shawls, and even stuffs. The undergarmentsare specially beneficial to gouty persons. Thisanimal is often raised by ladiesas a pet and for its beauty,so that now it is commonlycalled the ladies finds more admiring breed-ers in France than more attention were givento raising it in other
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. seful. A more superb animal can scarcelybe imagined. The fur of some of them is overfour inches long. The skins are greatly in de-mand, and all sorts of useful articles are madeof the fur, — undergarments, stockings, gloves,shawls, and even stuffs. The undergarmentsare specially beneficial to gouty persons. Thisanimal is often raised by ladiesas a pet and for its beauty,so that now it is commonlycalled the ladies finds more admiring breed-ers in France than more attention were givento raising it in other coun-tries it would soon becomea conunercial article in greatdemand. At present manufac-turers cannot obtain enoughof its fur to work it with widesuccess. It could certainly bebred most profitably. Thefemale is very prolific andrears her young with ease. 258 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS The race exacts but little care, is seldom ill,and its flesh is excellent. These Angora rabbitsshould be combed weekly; if neglected, theirappearance is woeful. There are other species. A Dutch besides the white ; the Russian Angoras, whitewith black noses, ears, legs, and tails, arecomical to behold. The silver rabbits are also splendid animals,whose skins are used by furriers and bringgreat prices. They are small but immenselyprolific. At birth the little ones are black, atthree months the silver hair appears, and atfour months they have their true color. Thelight colored are handsomer than the darkcolored, but the two shadesmust never be mated, or theyoung rabbits will be either toolight or too dark, which lessensconsiderably the commercialvalue of their skins. There isalso a silver-brown and a silver-yellow animal, but these areseldom or never met with inthis country. The two firstnamed are the most in finest specimens have auniform color; even the nose,paws, and tail should not bedarker than the body. The DiitcJi 7-abbit is much thesmallest of all species. It is not difficult t
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