208 Troiis[}is — Floor — Bin. 



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have often thou«:ht it mioht be useful to 

 adopt the feeding troughs with moveable 

 boards, as well for rabbits as hogs. The 

 floor of the hutches should be planed smooth, 

 that wet may run off, and a common hoe 

 with a short handle, and a short broom, are 

 most convenient implements for cleaning 

 these houses. The object being to obtain 

 the dung pure, for sale, no litter should be 

 allowed ; but on a farm, where the dung is 

 expended at home, the hutches should be 

 littered with refuse hay or straw, perfectly 

 dry. The rabbit house to contain a tub for 

 the dung, and a bin, for a day's supply of 

 hay, corn, roots or other food, which should 

 be given in as fresh a state as possible. 



There are other modes of confining rab- 

 bits for breeding, in which they are left to 

 their hberty, within certain bounds; for ex- 

 ample, an artificial mound walled in, in 

 which they burrow, and live as in the na- 

 tural state ; and an island, as described in 

 Mr. Young's Annals ; methods which are 

 certainly ornamental and pleasureable, as 



