Identifier: bonanzarabbitrym00plat (find matches)
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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ll bills your fair will be a failure.This is the reason so many fairs con-ducted by large clubs make failures.The moving spirits do not agree as re-gards matters of expense. Some arelavish in their notions; others are nig-gardly; but the common result is a hostof unpaid bills that must be met by thepromoters of the affair or else the wholething ends in disgrace. Every expend-iture in the nature of a reasonable in-vestment should be made. Otherwise atight hold should be kept upon the pursestrings. As a rule the public will beliberal in patronizing these fairs andthere is no need of financial failures inconnection with them. Finally, advertise freely, by means ofposters and in the newspapers. If thefair is held in a large city, get reducedrates on the railroads from neighboringtowns. At the Los Angeles exposition,in February, igoo, there was an atten-dance of nearly five thousand. Allbills were promptly paid and moneywas left in the treasury. Secure a re- 86 THE BONANZA RABBITRY MANUAL.
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SWEET MARIE. At 9 Months. Property of Bonanza Rafcbitry, Los Angeles, CaU Weight 9^ lbs; score 94^^ ; sire Lord Ca3-enne; dam Princess Ma.v. THE BONANZA RABBITRY MANUAL. 87 liable judge to do the scoring and pro-vide a committee of prominent citizensto devise and take charge of a plan forplacing every competing specimen be-fore the judge in such a way as to insureabsolute ignorance on his part of theownership of the animal and absoluteimpartiality in his decisions. Then,there can be no possible complaint onthe part of disappointed exhibitors. Bear in mind that all this means workand that organizing and carrying anexhibition of Belgian hares through toa finish is no occupation for a lazy man. THE SCORE CARD VERSUS COMPAR-ISON JUDGING.It is impossible for a judge to impartto the owner of stock a definite con-ception of its value under the conditionssurrounding a contest where a largenumber of animals are on exhibition.Suppose there are from twenty to onehundred hares to be compared and

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