CHAPTER X 
RABBITS, USEFUL AND INJURIOUS 
Raszsits hold a prominent place among the 
obstacles to success met with by both the 
farmer and the orchardist. They number many 
species, and one or more is present in any 
habitable part of the continent to which you 
may refer. The East has in its middle and 
southern part the familiar and widely distrib- 
uted gray rabbit or Molly Cottontail, which ex- 
tends westward to the plains; and the smaller, 
and redder swamp-rabbit of the South; while 
in our northeastern States and in eastern 
Canada the larger American or varying-hare, 
which turns white in winter, is present, and con- 
stitutes the principal winter fare of such 
worthy animals as the lynx, wolf, fox and vari- 
ous martens, and of some hawks and owls. In 
the West the great jack-rabbits abound, and in 
the far North the arctic white hares. 
Excellence of rabbit-flesh. To the native 
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