POSSIBILITIES IN RABBITS 25 
In the first place, as an industry the rabbit 
business in America is still in its infancy. 
Some breeders have made a great deal of 
money in an occupation which originally was 
nothing but a hobby with them. This, as 
has been suggested before, is due largely to 
their business ability. 
I happen to know one breeder who started 
about six years ago with $18 in capital and 
10 breeding rabbits, as he himself states. He 
has at the present writing a business which 
brings in more than $25,000 annually. He is 
not the biggest breeder in the country, either. 
T could name half a dozen more who have a 
larger business. But this man is an expert in 
all lines of the mail order business and I think 
this has had a great deal to do with his success. 
Rabbit breeding is a branch of the live stock 
business, and most of us know that the most 
profitable occupation on earth for the lover of 
the soil is live stock farming. One man may 
succeed with horses, another with beef cattle, 
another with dairy animals, and still another 
