218 Large Size — Calculation, 



equally proper for the table of the in- 

 valid. 



Castrated rabbits might be fattened, 

 no doubt, to the weight of upwards of ten 

 pounds, at six or seven months old. I 

 have not succeeded at castrating the rabbit, 

 but am informed it is successfully practised 

 in the land of capons, namely, Sussex, 

 near Chichester, where, on the average, 

 not one in three hundred, is lost by the 

 operation, which is performed at five or 

 six weeks old. With respect to quan- 

 tities of corn consumed in fattening ; — 

 August, 1813, killed a young buck, which 

 weighed three pounds, fit for the spit ; it 

 was put up in good case, and was only 

 one month in feeding, consuming not quite 

 four quarts of oats, with hay, cabbage, 

 lucerne, hunias orientalis, and chicory ; 

 the skin, silver and black, worth four 

 pence. 



In SLAUGHTERING full growu rabbits, after 



the usual stroke upon the neck, the throat 



"should be perfoYated upwards towards the 



