The Arizona sentinel., 1899-09-23
RELGIAN HARE CULTURE.

The raising or DtISl@h h"i O' become a regular fad in Southern California this year. Frank E. Kimball contributes an article to the Pacific Poultryman; which gives some pointers on this subject which will interest many of our readers:
 There is no need to go into the detail of the origin of the Belgian hare. They are with us, and are enjoying a boom. The question IS often asked, "Will not the business be overdone when so many are go- ing into it?"
 The writer, in answer, states that when many breeders go into It on a large scale the prices may be Iewered but never will an article ot superior merit as food be crowded dewn so low that there will be no profit in raising it,
 In, or very near Chicago, one firm is about to launch in tie business on purely a market basis, with a capacity of 25,OOO hares per annum- One feature of their scheme IS to cook, can and put upon the market potted hare of the same grade ot excellence as the best potted ham, chicken, turkey, grouse, etc. When it becomes generally known that the meat of the Belgian hare is sec ond to none as delicate, sweet and dainty article of food, and that the entire carcass is as white, juicy and tender as the breast of the spring chicken, that the cost of raising IS very much less, and flat the work of care and feeding is such small item compared to the successful raising of poultry, etc., after care ful investigation of the possibilities of hare raising, many fanciers will go into it on as large scale as they will find that as an addition to a poultry plant it will pay largely.
 There IS a larger number of Bel gian hare fanciers in Denver than in any other city in the United States, if not in the world, and there are none of them who, If they start ed right, have not made it pay splendidly, and at this time there are very few persons who are rais- ing them for market. A person starting with one pair six months old, if he breeds and handles them in a scientific maDner, will at the end of thirty days have litter oi an average of eight, When the young are four weeks old the doe may again be bred, the young tC be weaned at six weeks. When the first litter arrives. The young from ore pair will average fifty per an- mum. Of course, the does in the first litter will be old enough to breed in six months, and the young bucks may be marketed. Then breeding the young does when they are of age, and figuring that each litter has fonr does and four bucks there can be Tn the neighberhood ot 25O hares raised from one pair ir one year.
 The usual hutch for hareS i: about three feet wide by three feel deep and two feet high. This vii accommodate a doe and her litter .uatIl their weaning time, then they may be put into yards, or box O the same sIze will do, until they art four months old, when the seXe: must be separated.
 flares will thrive on any feec that a sheep will eat, but the best feed is clover or alfalfa hay and g  small handful of oats twice a day Plenty of fresh clean water mus be kept before them at ali times.
 When taken to market, the Bel gian is dressed ready for the oven and the purchaser pays for mea only. vhica + not the case whel he buys a fowl which IS seldom sold drawn. We have three large .asrho.- .u Dcaros that buy aEl tha' Ire o.epcd, and bay l. cen1s Pe. enul rog dressed stock which arg