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Points on Care and Breeding of Pheasants, etc. 



RABBIT BREEDING 



The rabbit's period of gestation is thirty days. Most all varieties of rabbits average 

 from seven to eleven young to a litter, but known to have as many as sixteen to a litter. It 

 is an industry in which most any one can engage in to provide recreation, and at the same time 

 provide meat for the table second to none. Rabbit meat is cooked in several ways same as 

 chicken meat, roasted, broiled, fried, etc., and tastes very much the same as chicken meat. 

 It can be produced at a less expense per pound than any other meat I know of, the principal 

 point in breeding rabbits is to protect them from dogs and cats. It is a wrong idea to handle 

 them by the ears, the proper way to handle them is to take a good handful of their pelt right 

 over the shoulders same as you would handle a pup. General feed for rabbits is all kinds of 

 vegetables oats, corn, wheat, rye, stale bread, etc., they will also eat all kinds of weeds and 

 worthless stuff, this makes the keeping very inexpensive. Rabbits best for stocking purpos- 

 es are the cotton-tail, jack, rabbits, English and German hares. For aviary purposes try 

 he Belgian hares, Dutch rabbit, Lope eared, Angora and Himalayans. 



A PRACTICAL CONCRETE ROADWAY THROUGH THE DESERT 



An automobile road from New York to San Francisco or "Bust" Let that be the am- 

 bition of every automobilist 



