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RABBITS—PIGEONS, 
common food are generally fat enough for pork ; they 
have in common, a little dairy produce given them, 
and sometimes a few potatoes. 
SECT. V.—RABBITS. 
I do not believe rabbits are any where attended to in 
this county as an article of profit, or, at least, in very 
few instances. The only instance I saiv of rabbits, 
was upon the south side of the declivity of Abberley 
Hill, but had no opportunity of learning whether they 
were regularly attended to as private property. Mr. 
Marshall says, they have been neglected on the Cots- 
wold Hills, which border on this county, on account of 
breaking their bounds, and straying over the country, 
sect. vi.—PIGEONS 
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Are kept by gentlemen resident in the country for 
variety’s sake, and the supply of their own tables, also, 
by farmers who happen to rent old mansions where 
pigeon houses have been formerly erected, and by 
whom the markets are supplied ; but I do not think 
them an increasing article; and, indeed, kept in too 
great numbers they would be a nuisance, from the de¬ 
predations they commit in corn fields and in crops; 
yet, Mr. Carpenter says, taken in all points of view, 
and in many situations, they are more profitable than 
any other sort of the feathered race; they do best in 
dove houses, as boxes fixed on the side of houses are 
subject 
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