SOME REASONS FOR RAISING RABBITS 11 
wake up a few mornings later and discover 
that the bottom had dropped out of this 
boom. And rightly so. 
The very reasons advanced by the breeders 
at that time for the adoption of the rabbit 
into our live stock family proved their un- 
doing. They did not hesitate to misrepresent 
the true situation and led people to believe 
that there was a tremendous demand for rabbit 
meat all over the country; they stooped to 
selling diseased stock, in order to profit from 
the temporary high prices, and in every way 
possible undermined their own work of pre- 
vious years. 
Those few breeders who continued to keep 
rabbits knew that some of the faults of the 
stock in those days would have to be bred out, 
and that the rabbit would never assume its 
rightful place in our live stock world as an 
article of commerce until it really met a need 
and was in a position to fill that need suc- 
cessfully. 
The present widespread adoption of the 
