The first Belgian hare course of instructionTwenty lessonsComplete directions for buying, sheltering, feeding, breeding ..developing a business, a true history of the Belgian hare .. . rth the time and ex-pense you have gone to if you expect to make a thoroughsuccess of Belgian hares. No. 11—The Belgian hare pays. says the owner of a largerabbitry in Cahuenga valley (California). No obnoxious efflu-via meets one on entering his rabbitry. Night and day doorsfacing east and west are wide open and plenty of ventilationon either side assists to brings about a happy freedom fromthe catarr
The first Belgian hare course of instructionTwenty lessonsComplete directions for buying, sheltering, feeding, breeding ..developing a business, a true history of the Belgian hare .. . rth the time and ex-pense you have gone to if you expect to make a thoroughsuccess of Belgian hares. No. 11—The Belgian hare pays. says the owner of a largerabbitry in Cahuenga valley (California). No obnoxious efflu-via meets one on entering his rabbitry. Night and day doorsfacing east and west are wide open and plenty of ventilationon either side assists to brings about a happy freedom fromthe catarrh which is the sure result of cloise air. Note this:Not merely uncleaned cages will encourage development ofthat disease, the snuffles, for which, once contracted, there isno sovereign remedy, only contamination of the breathing or-gans consequent on over-crowding in, it may be, an absolutelyclean space suffices to provoke every symptom of catarrh. Thebreeder has experimented and found after trial that haresresting during the day in a too-confined space, although thatsame space was kept in a condition of perfect cleanliness, de-veloped the symptoms of snuffles. Cure was effected by oc-. Piiotograpli l>y the Author. A LABOR-SAVING HUTCH ARRANGEMENT. Belgians in six hutches are fed at once in this rahbitry. The narrow hingeddoor is opened and hay thrown into three spaces. The Belgians reach theirfront feet through the wires and pull the hay toward them, hut not out into thehutch. The grain is fed on a slanting board and is eaten up clean at the floor of the hutch is kept free from hay and grain, and there is noiwasteof feed. EXPERIENCES IN SHELTERING 47 cupation of a larger space, proof positive that the inbreathingof lung-contaminated air was the sole cause of the eyes, sleek pelts and healthy breathing organs are surewitness of sound constitutions and these hares are blessedwith all three. Belgian hares, heavy breed, well kept, shouldin time pay the
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