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THE YELLO' 'SE 
NOVEMBER-DECEMBEF 
L. D, COLE, GRANNIS, ARI 
able hut 
VOL. 3, NO. 1 
September is usually one of our 
~ hot months, but this’ year was al- 
~ most as pleasant as October, though 
~rather dry. In fact, several morn- 
ings were cool enough for a little 
trash fire to be comfortable. 
Find I have been making a mis- 
take in the labelling of one of my 
Cacti. Had reason to think that | 
have both the Indian Fig (Opuntia 
Ficus Indica) and Opuntia Elata. 
Their pictures look much = alike. 
Quite recently have access to an un- 
abridged set of Britten and Rose 
work on Cactacea. Find that the two 
varieties differ in the aureoles. 
Those of the Elata having small, 
white, cottony centers, while those 
of the Indian Fig do not. None of 
“~~ mine have the white centers, hence 
X 
feel sure that mine are the Indian 
—~Fig. 
Have read that in the frost free 
portions of the Mediterranean basin, 
this Cactus is cultivated as a garden 
vegetable; the ripe fruits being eaten 
raw, dried or made into preserves. 
While my gang were at home, they 
_and their chums kept my Prickly 
Pears (Puntia Vulgare) closely 
grazed. 
RABBITS FOR HOME EATING 
No doubt the grass is green 
nearly the whole year where you 
live. To any one keeping a few Rab- 
bits for their own use and not car- 

_ ing if they grow rather slowly, there 
would be little expense for feed. 
Build pens that can be moved 
around the yard; keep water and 
salt in the pens and do not allow 
the grass grazed too closely. 
Best to have three permanent, 
conventional hutches—one for the 
buck and one each for a doe. Keep 
her in this from time she is bred 
until young are about a month old. 
Then put her and them into move- 

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doe can be bred again and put into 
her individual hutch. 
Leave the youngsters together for 
three months, then separate bucks 
and does. Usually the bucks can be 
kept together until eaten and the 
does until time to breed them. 
Never keep a six-month-old doe and 
buck together. It takes several pens, 
even if a person keeps only two 
does and a buck. All pens must be 
kept clean and manure often re- 
moved from hutch and ground 
around the hutches. The manure has 
the same fertilizer value as sheep 
manure. 
Rabbits will become diseased if 
their pens are allowed to remain 
dirty, and feed and water dishes 
should be scrubbed often. 
: Jack Stephens. 
Terre Haute, Ind. 

-] raised Rabbits for home eating 
and some for sale for several years 
and endorse all Mr. Stephens’ ‘state- 
ments. He is in the business of Yais- 
ing them. 
A man can build the hutches and 
pens more cheaply than the factory 
stock; but from my own experience 
I strongly advise a woman, espe- 
cially if she is a Christian, to send 
to the factory for her hutches and 
pens. Too great a strain on_ her 
Christian fortitude to try to hire 
them built. 
Except during “‘spells of weath- 
er’ we have green grass all year. If 
a person has a garden, much rab- 
bit feed is produced, incidentally, 
and still more if succession planting 
is done. In this way an_ excellent 
meat is had at a very small cost. 
There is less waste in dressing a 
Rabbit than a Chicken, and if both 
are young the flavor is almost alike. 






