10 CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF RABBITS 
We did not acquire a taste for domesticated 
rabbit meat and, indeed, many of us were 
prejudiced against it for we naturally sup- 
posed that it was similar to the meat of the 
wild rabbit. 
As to the possibility of the rabbit’s fur 
being worth anything, most of us again com- 
pared the domesticated rabbit to the wild 
rabbit and formed the conclusion that the pelt 
was worthless. 
Certain rabbit breeders, possibly not over 
a dozen in the whole country, who loved the 
rabbit and believed in its possibilities have 
spent long years of hard effort to breed their 
favorites up to a standard which would give 
them a commercial value; and when they had 
attained that goal, they had to spend a good 
many more years convincing the public that 
they had something worth while. 
A number of years ago a great rabbit boom 
was staged in this country. People went 
crazy over night and invested large sums of 
money in fancy stock and equipment, only to 
