64 CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF RABBITS 
a position to get returns without the delay nec- 
essary where the start is made under any other 
method. 
The ideal way to make the start is to buy 
two unrelated pairs of breeding age animals. 
This will enable you to start two distinct and 
unrelated strains and cross breed them for 
more than eighteen generations without in- 
breeding once. Where line breeding is to be 
followed, this is the only way to start, as it will 
give you two distinct lines and the character- 
istics of the two strains as shown in the parent 
stock will be perpetuated forever in the off- 
spring. 
It is necessary to be very careful in the mat- 
ter of buying stock. We have already hinted 
at the operations of the dishonest dealer and 
sharper who is not a producer of blooded 
stock, merely a dealer, and who does not hesi- 
tate to do anything short of murder to get 
your money. 
There is really only one way to be safe in 
buying stock and that is to go to recognized 
