FOR EXHIBITION AND MARKET 



Other domestic animals in the same locality. These 

 vary accordingly from the ration of oats and corn 

 with red-top timothy or clover hay of the east, to the 

 rolled barley and alfalfa ration of the Pacific Coast. 

 Therefore, the balance of this ration is a local prob- 

 lem and knowledge equal thereto must be derived from 

 some wide source of information. Although examples 

 of fairly acceptable practice are frequent in most loca- 

 tions where rabbits are popular, the feeding methods 

 followed by advanced stockmen indicate our needs and 

 also the literature to satisfy them. It is evident that 

 the development of excellence in our utility stock will 

 be accompanied by advancement in our knowledge of 

 scientific feeding. Lacking the authority of recorded 

 experiences of test feeding applied to rabbits, we must 

 be guided for the present by similar authority applied 

 to standard live stock. As a source of information 

 concerning feed values and suggestions regarding prac- 

 tical methods of test feeding", we recommend "Feeds 

 and Feeding," by Henry and Morrison. It is confi- 

 dently expected that our students of rabbit feeding 

 will profit by studying this and similar works and, 

 guided thereby, provide our industry with such exam- 

 ples of test feeding that a great deal of our speculation 

 of today will be supplanted by proven facts of tomor- 

 row. 



Whatever materials constitute our feeding sched- 

 ule, and wherever the work is accomplished, a com- 

 prehensive system of computing the cost of our prod- 

 uct is needful. With the market for rabbit meat 

 enlarging to the capacity of the industry, with canning 

 factories demanding raw material, it is necessary that 

 those providing the supply understand its cost of pro- 

 duction. In the following example it will be noted 

 that several of the factors are assumed averages. 

 These are in nowise arbitrary, being in correspond- 

 ence with the practice of the writer and the capacity 



212 



