CHAP. XVI.] FAKMING FOR LADIES. 333 



four quarts of oats, with hay, cabbage, lu- 

 cerne, and chicory;" and having heard that 

 a full grown rabbit of four or five months 

 old will eat a quart of oats in eight days, 

 we resolved on trying the experiment. We, 

 therefore, purchased a fine buck of that age 

 and had him fed entirely upon oats, with only 

 a little green vegetables, just to improve his 

 appetite, and found that in six weeks he ate 

 six quarts of good oats, weighing at least 

 40 lbs. per bushel. He was then killed, and 

 dressed in the manner of a brown fricassee ; 

 but, though of remarkably fine flavour, he 

 only weighed when trussed 3 lbs. 2 oz. 



Now, coming to the expense of feeding, and 

 assuming that a rabbit is to be fed with both 

 garden stuflf and corn after being weaned, 

 little more than the half of the above quantity 

 of oats will be sufficient ; and if continued at 

 that rate for four months from his being 

 weaned, the quantity of oats which he will 

 consume will, perhaps, not exceed ten pounds, 

 the cost of which, if bought at 3^. 6c?. the 

 bushel, will be only Is. Id. ; and, as the 

 garden stuff will be merely refuse, the only 

 additional expense will be a trifle for hay : so 



