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industry than E. W. Nelson, Chief of the United States 

 Bureau of Biological Survey. In Farmers' Bulletin 

 1090, issued by the Department of Agriculture, under 

 date of March, 1920, Mr. Nelson said: 



"The saving and earning possibilities of rabbit-rais- 

 ing are illustrated by the following concrete examples of 

 what has actually been done: 



"One resident of Kansas City, Kansas, has raised 300 

 to 400 pounds of rabbit meat a year for his own table 

 at a cost of only 8 to 10 cents a pound. A large re- 

 ligious institution in Nebraska that has raised rabbits 

 instead of poultry reports the meat more satisfactory 

 than chicken and the experiment profitable. According 

 to a former county commissioner of the State of Wash- 

 ington, rabbits were grown on the county farm to pro- 

 vide a substitute for chicken for the county hospitals ; 

 the initial stock, numbering 119 rabbits, increased to 

 1,200 in 10 months, besides those used in the hospitals. 

 A high-school boy in Iowa who breeds registered stock 

 on a space 33 feet square in his back yard, raised and 

 sold enough rabbits in 1918 to clear more than $1,200. 

 An Ohio farmer sends more than 400 pounds of rabbit 

 meat a week to city restaurants, yet is unable to meet 

 the demand. 



"These are not isolated cases ; they are simply ex- 

 amples of what has been done in rabbit raising, and are 

 an indication of what this industry is likely to become 

 when it is generally understood." 



However, I am not now dealing with rabbitcraft as a 

 source of cash income, but only as a natural and logical 

 means of catering to the meat supply of the garden 

 home. I cannot, however, refrain from mentioning the 



