26 CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF RABBITS 
may fail at all these and win out with sheep. 
And the man who couldn’t raise farm animals 
might be a big success with rabbits. It’s 
only a question of ability and business training. 
I have already hinted at some of the pos- 
sibilities of rabbit raising from a commercial 
standpoint. I do not think I have overstated 
the matter. Of course, there are dishonest 
dealers and breeders who are constantly ad- 
vertising the fact that $3,500 can be made 
from a single pair in a year and other such 
absurd claims. But if the reader will not go 
off on a tangent and start building pipedreams, 
he can generally catch these crooks at their 
own game. 
‘Because the rabbit is a prolific and quick 
breeder these men have taken the chance to 
deceive people with false claims as to the real 
facts. Most of us knew little or nothing about 
the rabbit when we started out. So we be- 
lieved these things until hard experience 
taught us the error of our ways. 
The rabbit will breed five times in one year, 
