FOR EXHIBITION AND MARKET 



until the meat proposition in the rabbit fancy will 

 be an enormous thing. The market is here and all 

 we need is a little hard work upon the part of each 

 fancier to help educate the people to eat tame rabbits. 

 The wild rabbit is extinct in many parts of America 

 and very few people care to eat them after they have 

 been lying around full of shot, probably from three 

 days to a week. In some localities they are not per- 

 mitted to be sold at all. In raising stock for the table 

 your rabbitry should be just as clean as if you were 

 raising some fancy show stock, and in fact, often the 

 fancier raises both at the same time. 



Some people making a regular business of raising 

 rabbits for the market, have cement floors, running 

 water and posts with ropes hanging down with a loop 

 on each end through which to slip one hind foot after 

 they have been killed. 



The proper way to kill rabbits is to hold them 

 by the hind feet and strike a quick blow on the back of 

 the head with a small hard stick. Bleed them at once 

 by cutting a slit in the throat with a penknife, then 

 hang them by the feet in the two loops provided and 

 proceed to skin them. This should be done as care- 

 fully as possible provided it is not in warm weather, 

 when the skins will not be of much value. If in winter, 

 the skins should be saved, as the fur proposition is be- 

 coming a good one, and the fancier who keeps on 

 throwing away his rabbit skins during the winter 

 months will certainly regret it in the near future. 



I wonder how many people in America know that 

 Eneland, before the war, imported annually more than 



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