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Title: The first Belgian hare course of instruction. Twenty lessons. Complete directions for buying, sheltering, feeding, breeding ... developing a business, etc. ... with a true history of the Belgian hare ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Crabtree, Pleasant Elijah New England Belgian Hare Company Rice, Elmer Cook, 1868-
Subjects: Belgian hare
Publisher: Boston, New England, New England Belgian Hare Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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p them alive,because more breeders are coming forward all the time toget stock for a start in business, and the only Belgians thatfind their way to the table and the hat and fur factories arethose which are rejected for breeding purposes because theyare faulty in color, markings, shape or breeding habits. A rabbit still larger than the Belgian may be obtained bycrossing it either with the Patagonian, the Flemish Giantor the Lop-Eared rabbit, but what is gained in weight is lostin extra weight of bone, quality of meat and good looks, ornon-conformity to the accepted standard, the color beingfaulty, or something else being the matter. Still, the criticmay say, it has more meat and a bigger pelt than the trueBelgian. Nevertheless, breeders have agreed not to sacri-fice the beautiful hare-like shape and handsome color of thetrue Belgian. Fix the foregoing first principles and definition of termsfirmly in mind and you will be able to comprehend intelli-gently the next lesson on how to buy.
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Photograph by the Author. By Permission of Jlr. and Mrs. .J. .S. Brothers DUMBJLETON, AN ENGLISH WILD HARE. (For Description See Opposite Page.) When the English fanciers first formulated the standard of breeding-Belgian hares, they took for their model in shape, size and some minorrequirements the beautiful wild hare of their country. HISTORY 15 DUMBLETON.THE upbuilding of the Belgian hare to its present standingin show room requirements has been so closely allied withthe wild English hare as regards many of its most importantcharacteristics that the latter becomes, for that reason, a mostinteresting specimen to the fancier. It was at the revision ofthe English standard in 1889 that the most particular stresswas thrown on the characteristics as show in the wild hare onthe requirements of length of limb, fineness of bone, boldnessof eye, alert disposition and waviness of ticking. They sinceapply. In order to show just the exact type that was consid-ered the ideal in this respect, I de

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