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Corn. Roots, Bark, Grain, Chicken Feed, Salt, etc. When it is considered that bone meal 

 is one of the best fertilizers, they will soon pay for themselves for that purpose alone. 

 These mills are not intended for grinding green bones. «^reeu bones cau only be shaved, 

 not ground. No. 750, $8.50. 



EXTRA CLEANED BIRD SEED. 



We make a specialty to put up choice recleaned bird seed in cartoons holding one 

 pound. These cartoons contain a mixture of Sicily Canary, Hemp, German Rape 

 and German Millet, all re-cleaned and of best quality. 



Have also plain Canary put up in the same way, one pound cartoons; this is of the 

 very best quality and also recleaned. Price. 10c. per cartoon; 3 cartoons, 25c. Have also 

 in bulk the above as well as Hemp, Rape and Millet. 



Cuttle Fish boue 5c. a piece; 50c a pound. 



Steckler's Prepared Food, for Mocking Birds, Thrushes, Nightingales, Robins, 

 Starlings, Sky-Larks, and all soft billed birds. Price per box, 30c. 

 Bird Gravel. — Small sized box, 5c, large sized box, 10c. 

 Red Bird Feed, 10c. per pound. 



THE BELGIUM HARE. 



Facts About the Belgium Bare. — The Belgian Hare 

 industry has come iuto great promineiace. They 

 were introduced in America some years ago and it 

 took but a short time for Eastern fanciers to recog- 

 nize their great worth. 



The demand for breeders and dressed hares for 

 the city markets is so great that for years to come 

 the supply cannot touch the demand. The Belgian 

 Hare has not that rank flavor so common to the 

 ordinary rabbit. Their flesh is juicy, tender, white 

 and fine-grained, and pronounced by epicures as 

 superior to chicken. 



A hare at tb eage of six months will dress from 

 four to six pounds, and bring from 15 to 25 cents 

 per pound, diessed. Some market the. hares at 

 from 16 to 18 weeks of age, and the usual price has 

 been from 85 to 45 cents each, in the city markets. 

 The cost of these hares when ready for market would not exceed 10 cents each when 

 raised in a large open inclosure. A doe, if properly handled, will herself produce 40 to 

 50 young in a year; allowing one half of these to be does, which are bred at six months 

 of age. the progeny of one doe will reach from 100 to 150 in a single year. A person 

 can raise enough rabbits to supply meat for a family of six persons in an inclosure of 

 20 feet square. 



The Belgian Hare has all the good qualities of the other varieties without inherit- 

 ing their weak points. 



Belgian Hare culture is a lucrative and desirable occupation and is an honest busi- 

 ness, for every purcahser gets value received" for his money. They are not hard to keep, 

 as they will eat anything that a sheep or cow will eat, such as weeds, grass, hay, straw, 

 cabbage, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, spinach, beets, turnips, dandelion, milkweed, plan- 

 tain, dry bread and milk, corn bread, boiled potatoes, raw onions, peas,. pea pods, green 

 corn, oats, wheat, barley, corn, etc. They like salt, therefore a piece of rock salt should 

 be kept handy for them, if convenient. 



Their hutches, or runs, shonld be kept clean, which requires but little work. When 

 they are kept in hutches, some dry saw-dust should be sprinkled over the floor twice a 

 week after cleaning. A piece of hickory or oak wood should be ^placed in the hutch 

 for the hares to gnaw at. They should have fresh water twice a day, as they drink lots 

 of water. A flowerpot saucer makes a good drinking cup. as it is not easily upset. 

 They shonld be fed at regular hours 2 or 3 times a day. It is best to feed just enough 

 than to over-feed. 



The Hutch.— A breeding 'hutch should be not less than 6 feet long, 2 feet wide and 

 20 inches high. Partition off about 20 inches of one end for a nestiug room. This apart- 

 ment should be dark, with an entrance 6 inches wide at the front and extending from the 

 bottom to the top of the hutch, thereby ventilating the apartment. A door is made 

 eight or ten inches wide, of the same height, furnished with a suitable catch for the 

 front. The front of the remaining forty inches should have a door of one-iuch wire 

 netting, fastened to a frame, made of seven-eights by two-inch wood. This door to be 



