CHAPTER IV. 

 BREEDING. 



THIS SUBJECT could easily fill a book, and is 

 of utmost importance. Each experienced 

 breeder thinks his method is the correct one, 

 hence we find many methods used in breeding. We 

 find a few basic ideas that have been developed and 

 adopted by the greatest breeders the world has known, 

 and it is these ideas that have made rabbit breeding 

 a pleasure as well as a profitable industry. 



The most important thing to consider in breeding 

 rabbits is nature. The nearer we can follow nature 

 the greater will be our success. 



If you have only does and no good buck, find the 

 best stud buck possible and pay the service fee. It 

 will be money well spent. There is plenty of good 

 registered stock ,now and it is an easy matter to use 

 a good registered buck at reasonable cost. Many 

 American fanciers are away back on this point and 

 until they can be educated to see the great advantage 

 of using good stud bucks the progress of the fancy 

 is sure to be slow. As an illustration of this fact, per- 

 mit me to again cite the famous Flemish buck on 

 the coast which produced the winners all over the 

 coast, and stock from the blood of this buck is going 

 all over America. You are making a mistake in not 



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