CHAPTER X. 



OF RABBITS. 



IF you want to improve your breed of wild 

 rabbits in the wood, you should kill off all 

 the wild bucks, and turn down some tame grey 

 ones, young ones three-parts grown. The 

 wild does will then breed rabbits of a much 

 finer and larger kind. 



If you want to obtain half-bred wild bucks 

 you should keep two or three tame does, and 

 let them breed from a wild buck, afterwards 

 turning your half-bred wild bucks down in 

 your woods. These half-bred bucks will be 

 able to preserve themselves from foxes, dogs, 

 and vermin, better than wholly tame wild 

 bucks. 



