80 CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF RABBITS 
I might state that in the parlance of the 
fur trade the rabbit is known as “coney.” 
If you have been offered coney fur at any 
time, you may know that it was rabbit fur. 
The fur is made into hats, muffs, gloves and 
mittens, decorations for dresses, coats, and 
collars, and used in lining coats. In short, 
rabbit fur is rapidly taking the place of more 
expensive pelts as the otherfur-bearing animals 
have disappeared from our forests and streams. 
The man who is raising rabbits for meat 
can, in the proper season, market the pelt and 
haveanadditionalincome. During the summer 
the skin can be saved and sold to dealers who 
in turn sell it to tanneries where it is tanned 
and used for gloves, or to glue manufacturers 
who use it in manufacturing glue. 
In this connection it is well to remember 
that the pelt of the domesticated rabbit is 
entirely different from that of the wild cotton 
tail. The wild rabbit has a pelt that is very 
thin and tears easily. It has practically no 
commercial value whatever. The pelt of the 
