FEEDING ADULT STOCK 127 
will not do it because it is one of the cleanest 
animals in existence and it will not drink con- 
taminated water or eat bad food unless starved 
to it. 
No more feeding is necessary until night 
when a good-sized handful of clover or alfalfa 
hay should be given to each rabbit. It is hard 
to say off hand just how much each animal 
should have. That is a matter of the indi- 
vidual rabbit and of observation. The rabbit 
should have all that it will eat up clean in the 
night and no more or less. 
Alfalfa hay, while a little more expensive 
in the Middle West and Eastern portion of the 
United States than any other hay, is undoubt- 
edly the best hay to use, as it contains a better 
feeding value than clover, having about three 
times the protein content that clover has. 
One summer I conducted an experiment 
with peanut hay as a forage for rabbits and 
I consider it the equal if not superior to 
alfalfa. If you live in the South or are where 
you can secure peanut hay for your rabbits, 
