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any other part that the rabbit can get at with its teeth. The front of tho 
hutch has two doors, one of which, belonging to the inner apartment, is 
made of boards, and the other, belonging to the feeding-room, is open, having 
wirework in front; both these doors are fastened by buttons in front, but 
open in a contrary direction. The bottom of the hutch should have a long 
narrow piece of wood in front, below the wires, at B, which should be mova¬ 
ble, and this, upon being removed, will permit an iron rod or scraper to be 
introduced for cleansing the hutch from time to time of any loose matter 
collected in it. In placing the hutch on the stand, it should be set a little 
aslant backward, and there should bo a few holes drilled at its back parti¬ 
tion, for the purpose of letting all liquid pass off as soon as it is voided. 
THE BUCK’S HUTCH. 
It is the plan of some persons to make the buck’s hutch different in every 
way from that of the doe, and to place him in a small, inconvenient place, 
with the back rounded off in the form of a dutch-oven, in which he has little 
or no room for exercise. This is bad in every respect. The buck should 
have a large roomy hutch, with a partition, and a back room into which he 
can retire when he pleases; for it is a great comfort to him to bo able to 
hide himself, and to skip in and out of his little chambers. His hutch 
ought, also, to be higher than that of the doe, and it should have a little 
trough for his dry victuals, and a little iron-wire rack on one side for his 
green food, if you wish to make him very comfortable. It is a bad plan to 
put hutches on the top of each other, and the buck’s hutch should always be 
put out of the sight of the doe. 
FEEDING RABBITS. 
Rabbits should be fed three times a-day; and the principal thing to be 
attended to is, always to give a good deal more dry than succulent food. 
All weeds and the refuse of vegetation should be banished from their diet, 
except the roots and leaves of dandelion, sow-thistle, and hog-weed. The 
most nutricious food are the tops of carrots and parsnips, cabbages, parsley, 
fine grass, clover, tares, coleworts, and the tops of tho furze-plant, which 
should be cut up with their dry food. The grain proper for rabbits are oats, 
peas, wheat, or buckwheat; to these, as the best kind of dry food, may be 
added bran, dry clover, pea and bean straw. Rabbits, full grown, which 
have as much corn as they will eat, can never take much harm from an 
abundant supply of vegetable food. But young rabbits ought to be very 
carefully attended to in this respect; and a very little vegetable food is the 
most proper, and that should be of the best kind, or they will soon depart to 
that “bourne from which no rabbit e’er returns.” 
NEGLECT. 
One of the most common faults of young rabbit-fanciers is, first to over¬ 
feed their pets, and afterward to neglect and half-starve them. Not only 
