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the hutch, he will receive four hundred and 
thirty-two pounds of rabbit meat from this 
little hutch which only occupies ground space 
of four by six feet! 
This is a very conservative estimate, an 
estimate which we have not failed to achieve 
ourselves. It would be even possible to do 
better provided one had extra hutch room and 
could mature the young stock. 
But indulging in figures is not always the 
best practice. We are apt to work the stock 
to death in an effort to get a large return from 
them. It is, as a matter of fact, possible to 
produce as many as one hundred and thirty- 
six rabbits from a single pair in the course of 
one year, provided all of the offspring is kept 
and mated as soon as they reach breeding age. | 
If the stock is to be sold for breeding pur- 
poses at an average price of five to ten dollars 
a head, which is not unusual where good reg- 
istered stock is used in the beginning, one can 
easily produce ninety-six rabbits from four 
does in one year which should have an average 
