POSSIBILITIES IN RABBITS 29 
animal sold by weight for eating purposes will 
not bring anything like an average of ten 
dollars each. 
The rabbit industry is today in its infancy. 
I do think, however, that the possibilities will 
become greater and greater as time goes on 
and it assumes a commercial aspect. One of 
the large packers announced more than a year 
ago that as soon as the production of rabbits 
reached a scale where it would be possible 
to warrant the attempt, a market would be 
established and rabbit meat would be sold 
over the meat counters of the country along 
with that of other animals. 
Canneries of rabbit meat have been estab- 
lished in two or three centers and furriers 
have entered the market for rabbit skins. 
During the season of 1918-19 one fur house 
with a national reputation advertised that 
they would pay $1 per pound for prime rabbit 
pelts, and stated that they could use one 
million pounds more than they had received 
the previous season. 
