FOR EXHIBITION AND MARKET 



as illustrated is an excellent form for the purpose. 

 The scope and completeness of each record will be 

 found generally satisfactory. 



It will be noted that the hutch record covers sev- 

 eral years' performance for one doe on a double page. 

 The Expense and Income balance will require but one 

 or two double pages per year, while the yearly balance 

 record is nicely shown on one double page. Beyond 

 providing for the above, the book should contain a 

 few additional final pages on which may be compiled 

 Weight Statistics, Feeding Statistics, General Notes, 

 etc. Among the last should be shown pedigrees of all 

 bucks put in service and a few remarks describing 

 their type, weight and performance record. 



Time Factors. 



The time factor of maintenance has been purposely 

 ignored by the writer as too uncertain for specific 

 treatment. At the February (1917) meeting of the 

 Southern California Rabbit and Pet Stock Association, 

 the writer presented a paper on "Feeding Market 

 Stock at a Profit," in which the time factor was treated 

 as follows : 



"The most difficult item of all in the matter of 

 accounting is the factor of time. No two rabbit rais- 

 ers employ similar methods of distribution of the food 

 materials. Naturally as the herd increases in numbers 

 its labor cost per hutch grows less. 



"Such equipment as trucks, push-carts, wheel-bar- 

 rows, etc., suitable to a large rabbitry are too elabo- 

 rate for a small one, where the materials are distrib- 

 uted by means of buckets or boxes equipped with bail 

 handles. It would, therefore, seem evident that the 

 one-third or one-half of a minute per hutch required 

 for feeding a large, well-equipped plant is too low a 



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