BREEDING AND CARE OF RABBITS 



to approach them on the subject and they may turn 

 you down, but if you offer to dress a couple for them 

 and make them a present of them, asking them to try 

 them for a special dinner, and then go back and ask 

 them what the guests thought of them, it is a sure 

 thing that you will secure a good customer, provided 

 you fed and dressed the rabbits in the proper manner. 

 They should be dressed at about nine to twelve weeks 

 of age for fryers and for roasting or stews they will 

 be satisfactory up to one year old, but under that age 

 is better. If they have been fed and properly taken 

 care of they should be plump and nice when dressed. 



In working up a private home trade, it is often 

 necessary to make a present of a nice dressed rabbit 

 to some person that you feel is able to purchase rabbit 

 meat each week. A customer is easily made by a 

 present of a nice dressed rabbit. Of course in small 

 cities and towns one will not receive as good prices 

 as in the larger cities, but the feed bill is also much 

 less. 



How many of you ever think when you visit a 

 large city and take your meals at a first class hotel 

 or restaurant to ask for Belgian hare or tame rabbit 

 meat? This is a small thing, but it has resulted in 

 causing hotel managers to try tame rabbit meat, and 

 once tried, always used. Educating the public to eat 

 tame rabbit meat is what we are working hard for 

 at the present time, and we need the co-operation of 

 every rabbit breeder in America. Talk rabbit meat 

 to every person with whom you come in contact. 

 Make yourself a committee of one to "boost" tame 

 rabbit meat in America and it will not be very long 



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