THE DOMESTICATED RABBIT 41 
erly, but it should be fed with regularity. It is 
regularity that gives it the greatest gains. Hap- 
hazard feeding at irregular intervals will not 
produce any exceptional success. But since 
the rabbit, like the horse, will eat at all hours 
of the night, the busy business man can feed 
them when he comes home from work, even if it 
happens to be after dark. 
Only two feedings a day are required, morn- 
ing and night and since any man can care for 
two dozen rabbits in about fifteen minutes 
morning and night, there is no reason why the 
business man or woman should hesitate to 
breed rabbits because of lack of time to take 
care of them. 
It isn’t the time spent on them that counts 
so much as it is the thoroughness and the 
promptness of the care given. But where they 
are only half taken care of, more time is nec- 
essary in the end than if the work was done 
properly from the start. 
The hutches should be cleaned out every 
morning, if they have solid floors and sawdust 
