HOW TO BUILD THE HUTCHES 87 
through ordinary wire netting as a hot knife 
goes through butter. 
While the cost was about $4 for each hutch, 
it was well worth the outlay of time and ex- 
pense. It provided a damp-proof hutch for 
the winter months and still one that housed a 
large number of rabbits upon a small space of 
ground. 
While some may object to the appearance of 
such a large rabbitry in the back yard, I wish 
to say in frankness that this rabbitry was not 
as ornamental as the others I‘have used. The 
picture was taken in the early spring months 
and does not show the possibilities of such a 
rabbitry. 
In the summer flowers and vines on trellises 
were planted all around this rabbitry, both for 
shade and ornamentation, and it was not half 
as bare and forbidding as it looks here. 
A hutch that will be much more satisfactory 
for the back yard fancier who wishes to keep 
only a few rabbits for the family table, or for 
the boy who wants a small number of rabbits 
