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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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an-tity of the liquor or gravy, will keepadmirably and will prove a most at-tractive novelty as compared withchicken, turkey, turtle, and similar high-class canned goods. The flesh of theBelgian will be cheaper because thereis less waste. At least five pounds ofclear, boneless meat, every particle ofwhich is eatable, may be secured fromeach five months old hare of averagesize and weight. In this country thisbranch of the industry is as yet in itsinfancy but, like the different uses ofthe pelts of the Belgian, it is destinedto attain enormous proportions. THE VALUE OF THE PELTS. We have demonstrated that the peltshave uses almost unnumbered. The firstof these is for leather. To the surpriseof all investigators into the qualitiespossessed by the leather made from thepelt of the Belgian hare, it has beenfound to be as tough as buckskin andis adapted to a far greater variety ofuses than the buckskin. A strand thewidth of a shoestring clipped from awell-tanned hide possesses tensile i.irt.
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YOUNG FASHODA. Property of Bonanza Rabbitry, Los Angeles, Cal. Sire, Champion Fashoda; dam. Bonanza Queen II. The peer of his illustrious sire.Reserved for our stud. THE BONANZA BABBITRY MANUAL. 101 strength almost equal to iron wire ofthe same thickness. In fact, few menare strong enough to break such a strandby pulling it with one hand against theother. We have shown that the leather isespecially adapted to use for whip-lashes, for covering baseballs, forbraided reins to riding bridles, for Span-ish riatas, for belt lacings, trimmings tosuspenders, shoe uppers for both ladiesand gentlemens shoes, for gloves equalto kid, for book-bindings, burnt-leatherwork, doll bodies and an almost endlessvariety of similar uses. It is readilytanned to resemble chamois skin and theskins of younger hares may be tannedand processed to duplicate the finestof kid. We have worked out various pro-cesses of tanning, several of which arevery successnful for the different uses.It is impossible to estimate t

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