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GROWING RABBITS AS A BUSINESS Rabbit Browing enterprises are reported from various parts of the country the animals being raised both for1 fur and tncatv A California company is to establish a large fur rabbit farm and pack the meat as tin potted hare Business men of Hamilton Canada have taken over a furrabbit farm and will raise Siberian rab ¬ bits for fur and meat This latter species is said to be comparatively new to Canada It sometimes sometimesreaches reaches a weight of fourteen pounds is black in color grows very quickly and one doe will produce about one hundred young In eight months The meat can be produced at five ceuts a pound it is naid and the pelts are of very good quality for forrabbit rabbit fur 1 riitrlV Hanr is looking into the wild Western jacUrabblt which Is killed by millions every year yearas as a jpest liy ifurmorsi Ifc l maintained by the De ¬ partment of Agriculture that jickmbhit meat is good game when fresh and that the hams when corned and smoked will compare well with German goose hums
