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tion. Too much green feed is equally injurious to young 

 rabbits during this period. Should digestive troubles 

 result from over-eating either class of food, the bowels 

 may be regulated by bread and milk ; and an occasional 

 feed of dandelion leaves will prove beneficial. 



Cabbage leaves are not good for young rabbits, and 

 should be fed sparingly to adults kept in hutches. In 

 open runs a larger variety of feed may be used with 

 safety than under hutch management. All dishes should 

 be cleaned and scaled frequently. 



The Government uses the following daily rations for 

 goats at the experimental farm at Beltsville, Maryland '. 



A ration of grain, consisting of -i parts cracked corn; 

 4 parts oats ; 2 parts bran ; 1 part oil meal. This is 

 the average per cent, although it varies in some cases. 

 For roughage, alfalfa is much preferred, but any hay, 

 and even a little corn-fodder is all right. Beets, tur- 

 nips, carrots, etc. — the sort of stuff there is usually a 

 surplus of in the family garden — chopped up, makes 

 good feed. Of course when on pasture only the milch 

 goats get grain. Never pasture them where there is 

 laurel, as it will kill them to eat it. 



An average high-grade goat gives 4 lbs. of milk a 

 day for 10 months of the year. Goats thirty-one- 

 thirty-seconds pure bred are eligible to registry. 

 Saancns are preferred to Toggenburgs at Beltsville, al- 

 though there is little difference, except that the Saanens 

 are perhaps not quite so nervous. 



Not much is known about the intensive pig; but one 

 can see .it a glance thai if pigs are to figure among the 

 livestock of a Garden Home, there must be not only an 

 intensive but an exceedingly sanitary pig. Some years 



