. Weston bros., Belgian hare scrap, no. 1 .. . on, so that they may make a good showing when be-fore the judge, will be given in a later issue. 46 BELGIAN HARE SCRAP BOOK. Belgians for Meat. Can be kept in quite small quarters, as flesh is the desiredend, and not bone and sinew. These hutches must be kept smaller the quarters the more necessary to clean them have all the food that they will eat up, at least twice aday. A warm mash, good grain and well cured hay with rootssuch as carrots, but not raw potatoes, will prove a good people raise common meat stock enti
. Weston bros., Belgian hare scrap, no. 1 .. . on, so that they may make a good showing when be-fore the judge, will be given in a later issue. 46 BELGIAN HARE SCRAP BOOK. Belgians for Meat. Can be kept in quite small quarters, as flesh is the desiredend, and not bone and sinew. These hutches must be kept smaller the quarters the more necessary to clean them have all the food that they will eat up, at least twice aday. A warm mash, good grain and well cured hay with rootssuch as carrots, but not raw potatoes, will prove a good people raise common meat stock entirely on weeds, such asmalva. This, of course, is the cheapest way and can be done, buta little grain must help and improve the meat. Hares must begradually accustomed to a green food diet or it will certainly dis-agree with them. Salt. Dont forget to have a lump of rock salt hung in each hutch,or give salt with their mash. Some soak the grain in salt waterand then dry it before feeding. Either way is good, but salt theymust have in some Diseases and Cures* M. A. Nicholls, Lockpokt, N. Y., The Record, Feb., 1900. Every breeder who has had experience in raising BelgianHares or rabbits of any variety has suffered more or less lossthrough slobbers. It is caused by the food becoming impacted inthe stomach and forming an indigestible mass on which the gas-tric juice does not act, the result being that the saliva, instead ofpassing into the stomach and aiding the digestion, oozes out ofthe mouth, forming an irritating, slimy substance which adheresto the fur. The hare in its efforts to clean itself with its frontfeet, besmears its face, neck, chest and front legs. After an ex-amination of the contents of the stomachs of several hares afterdeath from slobbers, the same impacted condition of food wasfound in each. Knowing that salt was used with nuts, popcorn,etc., to act as a disintegrator and to aid digestion in the humanstomach, I arrive at the conclusion that it w
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