228 CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF RABBITS 
merely containing a space for the name of the 
animal, the date of its birth, to whom sold, 
by whom, and the names of its sire and dam, 
grandsires and grandams. At least three gen- 
erations are necessary before the animal can 
be registered and where it is possible to obtain 
more of a pedigree, so much the better. 
The value of the pedigree is still greater if it 
contains some sort of a record of the perfor- 
mance of each individual such as show records 
or breeding records, but it is hard for one 
to obtain such a minute record from the aver- 
age breeder. In other branches of live stock 
breeding you will find more careful records 
kept along this line. 
In keeping an intelligent pedigree record it is 
necessary to give each rabbit in your breeding 
hutches a name or a number and to keep a 
record of the performance of each individual. 
There is such a demand for pedigrees at the 
present time that many breeders are merely 
“feeding the public” with pedigrees with high 
sounding names and passing off inferior stock. 
But where the rules of the National Associa- 
