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STUDIES IX BLACK AND WHITE. 



A good general menu would be oats 

 night and morning with a handful of 

 greens or a carrot or other root and 

 some hay as needed. Once a week is 

 often enough to give any soft feed. 

 Above all avoid any soiled or mouldy 

 food. These animals will thrive for 

 anyone if kept dry, cozy and fed liber- 

 ally, but they are very susceptible to 

 lack of these essentials. 



BREEDING. 



For breeding, which is the ambition 

 of every fancier, the boar is allowed to 

 run with two or three sows until there is 

 evidence of a coming family. Take the 

 female out under these circumstances 

 and put her in a hutch alone until she 

 litters. If it is wished to breed im- 

 mediately again the boar and sow may 

 be left together, but do not leave too 

 manv together or vou will lose vour 

 youngsters as they are likely to be 



trampled on, even if born all right. In 

 making your matings follow out some 

 definite plan and have some object in 

 view. Aim to improve your stock and 

 bring it nearer the ideals of the stand- 

 ards, and you will derive no end of 

 intellectual enjoyment and increase 

 your nature knowledge by wonderful 

 bounds. More extended information on 

 the general plan to be followed can best 

 be gotten from the newer fancier book- 

 lets. 



SELECTION OF STOCK. 



As to the selection of the stock, much 

 will depend on your own taste. There 

 are three chief varieties of cavy : the 

 long silken tressed Peruvian, the most 

 aristocratic perhaps of all ; the rough, 

 bristling, saucy Abyssinian has charm 

 in his radiating rosettes, while the 

 sleek, blocky and graceful, smooth 

 coats are to-day the leaders in perfec- 



JUST THINK OF THE ABSURDITY OF ASKING ANYONE TO BE "MERCIFUL" TO THESE! 



