. Rabbit culture and standard; a complete and official standard of all all the rabbits. r- al-and-forward convex nose; conspicious eye brows, and rather broad appearing forehead formed by the root of the ears. All these points enter into classic breeding of thisvariety. THERE is nothing special about the eye of a Lop other than it £ygS should be sound and attentive. But I will add, there belongs yet something that makes it decidedly characteristic of this variety of fancy Rabbit. The inordinate size of those pendant ears demand an anatomical adjustment of muscle and cartilage about the cranium
. Rabbit culture and standard; a complete and official standard of all all the rabbits. r- al-and-forward convex nose; conspicious eye brows, and rather broad appearing forehead formed by the root of the ears. All these points enter into classic breeding of thisvariety. THERE is nothing special about the eye of a Lop other than it £ygS should be sound and attentive. But I will add, there belongs yet something that makes it decidedly characteristic of this variety of fancy Rabbit. The inordinate size of those pendant ears demand an anatomical adjustment of muscle and cartilage about the cranium that creates more or less corrugaticn around the eyes, which causes a singular droll expression quite typical of the Lop. It is an appearance of earnest effort to keep the eyes open in spite of those large ears. MUST be perfectly straight, andcarried well up the body, out any suspicion of a twist. To carry the tail side-wise doesnot imply a twist in it, nor is itnecessarily a disqualification when the specimen is other-wise meritorious. 22 w >o > o aI—t H t?d t-O. AS remarked, the object of breed-ing Lops is virtually alone forBreeding their earage, and there has been considerable contention amongfanciers just where successcomes from—correct strain, or correct attention. Argu-ments of intense warmth and no smail acrimony have beenfreely exchanged on this point, but I am reasonably cer-tain, that if the strain is not endowed with inherent pro-pensity to procreate well developed ears, there is smallchance for meritorious success. The matter of artificial heat will, without doubt, alsoaccentuate growth of ear; and when natural weather temp-erature is below 70 degrees within, the quarters becomea necessity, notwithstanding all arguments to the con-trary. One prominent English authority insists that it isimpossible to produce earage beyond 24 inches withoutartificial heat, but we must bear in mind that there is amarked difference in climate between our country
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