. Weston bros., Belgian hare scrap, no. 1 .. . , quotations ranging from $1 to $ a pair in market. Thisapplies only in game season, when they are sold solely for eatingpurposes. Can that be done with poultry? I leave the readerto judge whether he can get $1 a pair average for his fowls inmarket. Belgians make very nice pets. They like to have theirfur stroked, will eat out of your hand • but there is another fea-ture to be looked at. We are all after the mighty dollar, and Iclaim there is more money in hares than in fowls for is a quotation from the Rural Neiv Yorker, August 8,
. Weston bros., Belgian hare scrap, no. 1 .. . , quotations ranging from $1 to $ a pair in market. Thisapplies only in game season, when they are sold solely for eatingpurposes. Can that be done with poultry? I leave the readerto judge whether he can get $1 a pair average for his fowls inmarket. Belgians make very nice pets. They like to have theirfur stroked, will eat out of your hand • but there is another fea-ture to be looked at. We are all after the mighty dollar, and Iclaim there is more money in hares than in fowls for is a quotation from the Rural Neiv Yorker, August 8, 1891:Nine-tenths of all the rabbit meat brought to this country comesfrom France, Belgium and Germany, and in ten months alonebrought $1,370,000, and is none other than the Belgian couple of doe rabbits, weighing 8 pounds each, will producemore meat than a couple of ewes weighing seventy pounds young is the average of a doe in a season. They will aver-age 6 pounds each at six months old, making 240 pounds of rab-bit Breeding* By C. E. Goodsell, in San Jose Herald. i Why do some Belgian Hares bring so much higher pricesthan others ? Most breeders have their own opinions on the sub-ject, but the opinions of prominent breeders do not always agreein every particular. This disagreement is some times due to adifferent experience in breeding, and some times to a different in-terpretation of the Belgian Hare standard. In this connectionit is profitable to consider the origin of the Belgian Hare andhow the present standard was adopted. In the early part of the nineteenth century some wild ani-mals in Belgium were crossed, and the young from these matingswere called Leporines. The wild animals so crossed were rab-bits and not hares. No attempt to cross hares with rabbits hasever been successful, although there is a false tradition that Bel-gian hares originated from such a cross. The genuine hare is born with eyes open and able to runaround at once, while the
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