214 JVinter Rabbits — Produce. 



beer caudle, as well as any other lady ; 

 or warm fresh gi'ains will comfort her ; a 

 malt-mash ; scalded fine pollard, or bar- 

 ley-meal, m which may be mixed a small 

 quantity of cordial horse-ball. 



With due attention to keeping them warm 

 and comfortable, and guarding against 

 ajiy sudden impressions from cold, and, 

 more particularly, moist air, and with the 

 aid of the best and most nourishing food, I 

 have bred rabbits throughout the winter, 

 with nearly equal success as in the summer 

 season. But, in truth, their produce is so 

 multitudinous, that one might well be satis- 

 fied with four or five litters, during the best 

 part of the year, giving the doe a winter 

 fallow. — Even four litters, would, upon the 

 lowest calculation, produce twenty young 

 ONES ANNUALLY to cach doc — cqual to an 

 annual two thousand, from a stock of 

 ONE hundred does. I havc no experience 

 of does, as breeders, beyond the fifth 

 year ; the buck will come into use at six, 

 or €ven four months old, and be in per- 



