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ground, for the convenience of clearing under 

 them. Each of these hutches intended for 

 breeding, has two rooms, a feeding and a 

 bed room. Those are single, for the use of 

 the WEANED rabbits, or for the bucks, which 

 are always kept separate. When much green 

 meat is given, rabbits make a considerable 

 quantity of urine, and I have sometimes seen 

 occasion to set the hutches sloping back- 

 wards a few degrees, a very small aperture 

 being made the whole length of the floor, 

 to carry off the urine. A sliding door in the 

 partition between the two rooms, is conve^ 

 nient for confining the rabbit, during the ope- 

 ration of cleaning ; which, indeed, is a good 

 argument for having all the hutches double, 

 it is more troublesome to clean out a room 

 with a number of rabbits in it, than with only 

 one. It must not be forgotten, that the 

 teeth of rabbits are very effectual imple- 

 ments of destruction to any thing not hard 

 enough to resist them, and their troughs 

 should be bound with something less pene- 

 trable than wood. As they are apt to 

 scratch out their food, and dung in it, I 



