. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. d inlarge numbers ever since the Warof 1870, when the German soldiersdiscovered its merits. Its two flop-ping ears hang down on each sideof the head and almost touch theground. It comes in all colors, chieflygray, but sometimes steel-blue, black,and yellow. The English lop-carcd rabbitowes its existence to the Frenchbreed. In England novelty is de-sired, — new things before usefulthings. A rabbits ears ought to belong! At first breeders of the ani-mals had recourse to overheating thehabitations, so that this English product ma
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. d inlarge numbers ever since the Warof 1870, when the German soldiersdiscovered its merits. Its two flop-ping ears hang down on each sideof the head and almost touch theground. It comes in all colors, chieflygray, but sometimes steel-blue, black,and yellow. The English lop-carcd rabbitowes its existence to the Frenchbreed. In England novelty is de-sired, — new things before usefulthings. A rabbits ears ought to belong! At first breeders of the ani-mals had recourse to overheating thehabitations, so that this English product mayrightly be called a hothouse breed. The speci-mens seen at shows are smaller than the Frenchrabbit, but their ears are much longer, thosemeasuring from eighteen to twenty inches beingby no means uncommon. Once upon a time thisanimal was all the fashion in England ; lately ithas given place to other breeds. In the matterof utility the English lop-eared rabbit is worthabsolutely nothing, for it is feeble, without re-sistance to disease, and serves only to please.
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