130 CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF RABBITS 
cause you a nice lot of trouble if fed in that 
fashion. Feed it promptly and give only what 
the stock will eat up clean. 
Now a word about cabbage. There seems 
to be an impression among beginners that 
cabbage is the ideal green food for rabbits, 
because most of us have noticed now greedily 
the wild cotton tail goes after the cabbage in 
our gardens. 
The rabbit likes cabbage and will eat it 
greedily, but it is not desirable for the reason 
that it has a severe effect upon the kidneys. 
Furthermore it causes a terrible odor around 
the hutches. Lettuce, dandelions or chicory 
leaves are all as good as cabbage and they do 
not have this injurious effect upon the kid- 
neys, so cabbage should not be fed at all, or 
only very sparingly at most. It is apt to 
throw all of your stock into diseased condi- 
tions which the beginner cannot cope with. 
Feed the rabbits intelligently and do not 
overfeed. It hurts the rabbits and your 
pocketbook as well. Do all that you should 
in the way of feeding, but why do more? 
