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many of each litter your doe will raise. Fancy 
stock should never exceed three does to the 
litter, and every: breeder will tell you this. 
Where you wish to save all of the stock 
from.an.especially valuable doe it is not neces- 
sary to kill off all-of the litter.. You can. use 
nurse does. By this you breed another doe 
or two at the same time you do the good doe 
and then kill the offspring of the ordinary 
does and give them some of the litter of the 
good doe to raise. In this way a large litter 
from valuable stock can all be saved as a rule. 
It is useless to argue that you merely want 
the youngsters for meat stock anyway and 
have concluded to keep all the youngsters. If 
you will give one doe six rabbits to raise and 
then give another one three to raise, the doe 
with the three rabbits will produce youngsters 
that will outweigh six nursed by another at 
the same age. Try it and convince yourself. 
The more youngsters you permit a doe to 
raise, the less the size and the slower the 
development. If you have ever raised pigs 
