#% CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF RABBITS 
stock, but there is a good profit in raising 
meat for market. In my own neighborhood 
rabbit meat sells for as much as 65 cents per 
pound dressed and it never falls below 30 cents 
a pound live weight. There is, of course, the 
necessity of building up a local demand for 
your meat but it is not slow in coming so 
long as other forms of meat continue at their 
high prices. 
The meat of the domesticated rabbit has 
many things uncommon to other meat which 
give it good selling points. In the first place, 
itis of unusually fine texture, being white all 
over and something like the breast of a 
chicken, but lacking any trace of the oily sub- 
stance found in fowls. 
It is the most nutritious form of flesh known 
to science. It has been definitely established 
that domesticated rabbit meat is 85% pure 
nutrition, while beef contains only 55% nutri- 
tive value. This may be a surprise to some 
people, but it is another reason why people 
are raising rabbits. 
