BREEDING AND CARE OF RABBITS 



and wondered if it would be difficult to locate his 

 rabbitry. At the end of the car line was found a 

 large sign board, containing a hand pointing in the 

 direction of the rabbitry, on which appeared the words, 

 "Two blocks to Northern Hill Rabbitry." That 

 showed the average person, who was not interested in 

 rabbits, that there is money in raising rabbits, and 

 aroused their curiosity, and when you can get a person 

 interested in rabbits, you can sell them. "Northern 

 Hill Rabbitry" has sold many rabbits through those 

 sign boards leading through the woods to the rabbitry. 



In the first place try to sell your stock exactly as 

 represented. Do not take a customer's money for a 

 certain specimen, and because you can sell it for more, 

 keep his money, and send him something inferior. 

 You never know who the person is to whom you are 

 selling, unless you have met him personally, and by 

 putting one over on him, you may cause the fancy to 

 lose one of its finest fanciers. The trouble is they 

 seem to have turned the "golden rule" around to read, 

 "Do the other fellow first." That is entirely wrong, 

 and if you try to give the other fellow just a little 

 better stock than he is paying for, the fancy will be bet- 

 ter and you will be much happier. Never sell diseased 

 stock at any price. 



Be sure to keep an accurate record of the does you 

 breed and sell, for you may forget the date you bred 

 a certain doe and guess at it, and the fellow who 

 receives her tajces your word and perhaps is a little 

 slow in giving her a nesting box and she kindles a 

 week earlier than you stated. These things often hap- 

 pen, and the buyer is disappointed, for he may lose 



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