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ing the operation of cleaning ; which indeed, is a 

 good argument for having all the hutches double, it 

 being more troublesome to clean out a room with a 

 number of rabbits in it, than with only one. It 

 must not be forgotten, that the teeth of rabbits are 

 very effectual -implements of destruction to any thing 

 not hard enough to resist them, and their troughs 

 should be bound with something less penetrable 

 than wood. As they are apt to scratch out their 

 food, and dung in it, I have often thought it might 

 be useful to adopt the feeding troughs with move- 

 able boards, as well for rabbits as hogs. 



The FLOOR of the hutches should be planed 

 smooth, that wet may run off, and a common hoe 

 with a short handle, and a short broom, are most 

 convenient implements for cleaning these houses. 

 The object being to obtain the dung pure, for sale, 

 no litter should be allowed ; but on a farm where 

 the dung is expended at home, the hutches should 

 be littered with refuse hay or straw, perfectly dry. 

 The rabbit-house to contain a tub for the dung, and 

 a bin for a day's supply of hay, corn, roots, or other 

 food, which should be given in as fresh a state as 

 possible. 



There are other modes of confining rabbits for 

 breeding, in which they are left to their liberty, 

 within certain bounds ; for example, an artificial 

 mound walled in, in which they burrow and live as 

 in the natural state ; and an island as described in 

 Mr. Young's Annals : methods which are certainly 

 ornamental and pleasurable, as well perhaps as 

 more for the comfort of the animals ; but surely not 



