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Identifier: firstbelgianhare00crab (find matches)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 harePublisher:  Boston, New England, New England Belgian Hare CompanyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:antity and of variable quality, with the result that gamelater drifted into its proper destination, that of furnishingdelight, pastime and recreation for the sportsman, and thesupply of meat for domestic purposes was expected to be theproduct of domestic animals and fowls. Very naturally the larger animals were first in favor, andlater it came to be understood that they were not preferable,from the fact that their use must be confined to the citiesor to the cool season of the year, in order to avoid loss onaccount of an over-supply. Swine rapidly grew in favor on account of the more prac-tical size, and well can we yet remember when there wasconsiderable rivalry displayed in an attempt to produce thelargest specimens of this animal, which, however, later diedout, and the production of the medium-sized, quick-maturinghog was the crowning feature of the porkers ambition. A demand for a smaller and cheaper animal followed untilit is now true that sheep is a prime favorite for the produc-Text Appearing After Image:(^opyriglit, 1<)0I, by tlie New England Belgian Hare Co. SCORING THE NECK. For Description See Page 164. FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY 201 lion of meat, and mutton is everywhere in use. But even thesheep was not destined to furnish the limit as the most prac-tical meat producer for humanitys sake, but poultry was tobe seen in every farmyard, and even in the suburbs of thecity, it being the most practical size yet known—just rightfor one good meaL unless, perchance, one had a very largefamily or guests, in which case it could easily be doubled up,whereas you could not reverse the rule and butcher only apart of a larger animal at one time. Thus it was that poul-try was finally considered indispensable to the comforts ofthe civilized races. While all this was going on there had been springing intoexistence a little animal that was to be as much more prac-tical, even than poultry, as poultry had been above all theother articles enumerated. Three years ago I might have expected you to ask meNote About Images
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