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eat, try to find the trouble, is the fancier that will be 

 successful and make money on his rabbits. Good 

 wholesome feed at regular hours is what your stock 

 requires. 



In certain localities where the summers are hot, it 

 is advisable to cut down the feed in the spring, so 

 the stock will be better able to withstand the hot 

 weather. Starting in the early spring, dandelions, 

 chicory, plantain leaves, carrot tops and cauliflower 

 tops, fed in the morning on different days, make a fine 

 feed, but it should be fed very carefully at first and 

 never fed when wet or heated from standing in sacks 

 or boxes. If it has been in sacks or boxes for any 

 length of time, be sure to spread it out on some 

 chicken wire, where it will soon cool off and dry out. 

 Lawn -clippings are good provided they are cut from 

 clean lawns, but often lawn clippings cut from lawns 

 along the sidewalk are covered with tobacco spit, and 

 the poor rabbits are expected to eat them. 



At noon for young stock and nursing does, bread 

 and milk is one of the best meals you can give. If 

 their bowels become too loose, cut down on the green 

 food, also the bread and milk. Plenty of fresh straw 

 or timothy hay, not alfalfa, kept in the hutches sum- 

 mer and winter will keep rabbits from getting the 

 scours, even when eating a lot- of green food. At 

 night clover hay or alfalfa with good whole oats, a 

 small handful to each individual rabbit, makes good 



feed. 



In summer rabbits like good fresh water several 

 times a day, and their dishes should be kept perfectly 

 clean at all times. The milk dishes should be scalded 



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