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Title: The Bonanza rabbitry manual; a practical treatise presenting tested and approved methods for the mating, feeding, management, exhibiting and marketing of the Belgian hare, noblest of the rabbit family
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Platt, Burton Coles
Subjects: Belgian hare
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., B. C. Platt
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sulted at anytime, and your customer, and those towhom he sells, may thus avoidthe possibility of in-breeding throughexchanges or sales of stock thatis akin. Never sell to a pur-chaser both sexes that are akin, orstock that is maimed or unsound fromany cause whatever. Dont place strange animals that areover four months old in the same pen,or in the same crate for shipping. Nevership stock any distance before it is threemonths old. Dont ship in crates withclosed sides or ends, or in crates that arenot supplied with self-feeding grainboxes, hay baskets and drinking foun-tains. In brief, use your common sense inall particulars. Remember that you aredealing with a highly-organized, sensi-tive animal, one that responds quicklyto liberal care and as quickly to neglector indifference. The gratification ofsuccess should be a sufficient incentiveto painstaking. If it is not, then rjontgo into the business at all. The hare istoo noble an animal to be mistreatedthrough ignorance or carelessness.
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0 o nJ rt > m >, u T) m Cl ifj h4 THE BONANZA RABBITRY MANUAL. 105 VALUABLE SPECIALTIES FOR RABBITRIES. Dr. B. C. Piatt has invented and manufactured a number of specialties indis-pensable in every well-appointed rabbitry. They include everything that thebreeder needs for his own convenience and for the comfort and health of his pets.We sell all these supplies in quantities to suit, wholesale or retail. We quoteherein retail prices. Prices on larger quantities given on application. Thesearticles are protected by letters patent. OUR HAY RACK. Is the neatest and most convenient known for feedinghay. It is constructed of strong wire and is very durable. Can be ad- justed to any pen in a moment. With this rack it is impossible for hares tocatch their ears to or do themselves any injury. Price, $2.50 per dozen. THE BONANZA SELF-REGULATING FEED BOX.These boxes prevent the waste of food and keep it always clean. They aremade of galvanized-iron, are neat and ornamental, can be regulated

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