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chop the rabbit flesh fine by hand than to grind it in 

 a sausage machine, as the latter turns it out in a 

 pulpy indigestible state. 



There is nothing in the form of meat so good for 

 young pheasants as rabbit flesh ; it is light and easily 

 digested, and rabbits are readily procured on an estate 

 where game is preserved. Six to ten rabbits a week 

 will satisfy the requirements of five hundred birds 

 according to their size. If rabbits are scarce, then 

 coarse butcher's meat, boiled, and minced very fine, is 

 always wholesome. 



The best substitute for rabbit flesh or fresh meat 

 is ' Spratt's ' crissel. As to ' Greaves,' I look upon 

 them as unwholesome and indigestible filth in the 

 shape of rotten shreds of tallow. 



THE FOUETH AND FIFTH WEEK 



Small wheat (not barley, it is too rough), two 

 feeds. Custard, or hard-boiled egg, and Indian meal, 

 barley meal, and a little oatmeal mixed together and 

 scalded (with the usual allowance of chopped rabbit 

 or meat and chopped lettuce or onion) two feeds. 

 The wheat to be slightly boiled to soften it. To induce 

 the birds to take to the wheat, mix a little scalded 

 meal with it for the first few days. 



