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ferable to rest the hutches upon stands, about a foot 

 above the ground, for the convenience of cleaning 

 under them. Each of those hutches intended for 

 breeding should have two rooms, a feeding and a bed- 

 room. Those single are for the use of WEANED 

 RABBITS, or for the BUCKS, which are always kept 

 separate. 



When much green meat is given, rabbits make a 

 considerable quantity of urine, and I have sometimes 

 seen occasion to set the hutches sloping backwards 

 a few degrees, a very small aperture being made the 

 whole length of the floor to carry off the urine. A 

 sliding door in the partition between the two rooms, 

 is convenient for confining the rabbits during the 

 operation of cleaning ; which, indeed, is a good argu- 

 ment 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 moveable 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 



