The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-27
MEAT OF BELGIAN HARE.
u Is Served by Many Hotels throughout
California.
a TRAVELLING MAN GlYLS his OPINION
sns II Is a Great peiicacy and It's
Use shorld BE Extcudcd-How
the Harcs Arc Raised.


CLASSES Of business men the travelling
statesmen is best posted and most con-
Versant with the general important is
sues OF the day
! Term them by any significant name.
whether II be in common phraseology,
the drummer" knight Of the grin"
sample rustler oi moro elegantly, tao
commercial salesman they are equally
ready IN any case 10 discuss almost any
senefal subject Just little more IN
tedlgenuy tnan the Individual who pro-
POSED IT, II would not be a natteriug
remark to say that tney are ever alert,
QUICK 10 see point and as rule eN-
celtonally brlght-mlnded This, how
ever, In many cases is the result OF On
education which naturally attends Their
! iaheiant business, for BY reason of their
residence, nowhere in particular, ana
everywhere in general. they manage TO
get together ideas aud material for coif-
Parlson from every quarter by which they
are enabled TO draw reasonably correct
conclusions.
lacy are class OF men also VINO are
as fond OF personal comfort as though IL
were their natural heritage, and after
having sampled the best dishes that
cooks all over the country can prepare
they are rightly entitled TO the distinc-
ton OF epcureans.
compliment paid by one OF these
eonnoisseurs TO the meals and service Of
any hotel is as good rs a valuable aux
lllary to its stock in trade and hint
from a drummer TO a hotel proprietor IN
fhls connection is often as good as
command An incident bearing out this
TACT is contained In the conversation OF Il
drummer who remarked, while sitting at
hotel not many miles from Houston as
! follows; Texas is Grand State--I ought
10 know live been making leading
business points here for ten years; bat
Tor first class meal, commend me to
, Southern California, where the best OF
) fruit is served every month in the year
aud the best meat that man ever
tasted--the Belgian hare
Los Angeles has an estimated popula-
ton OF 10000 people. but there are more
Belgtans raised in and around that city
than there are people who lnhabE IT,
have eaten the hare, cooked in every
) conceivable way that any meat wds ever
prepared, but it is equally delicious, 70
, matter how prepared The fact Is, the
quality of the flesh is there to begin with
and no leading hotel In California would
ever TANK Of making up bill OF fare
without IT,"
The proprietor OF this hotel has bene-
fted himself accordingly by securing
some breeding Bclgians with which to
make a stapt toward supplying his guests
Z occasionally with feast Of Belgian
hare.
For meat purposes many people object
to Belgiuns, saying, How can we afford
l, to eat them at the exorbitant prices
charged" This may be considered very
, reasonable Wow cf lhe situation at pres
eut, when the supply Is so far short Of
fha 4 md Ia .a1 Tln hE
A most prolific perhaps OF all useful ami
Z mails persons who desire to commence
bleeding them purchase all the available
J. stock, and they are not yet plentiful
enough for general table use. This
!. meat. however, can be raised cheaply
= enough 10 place /. within the reach Of al
? II those who desire TO use 1t will ra.so
their own meat, Mature meat stock eau
not be had at less taan $3.50 to $40 pei
pair, but for meat purposes hey are just
as good as the finest fancy stock whicf
:, sell at figures very much in advance o.
. this according to col4A shape and othe'
o., fine points so Naluable&b tanciers, Many
people who would begin 10 raise the hart
B. fer meat are sometimes discouraged be-
. fore they commence by saying "MhC
10 can afford TO eat hare meat at 81 10 s.
4 for each hare, but this Is extravaganza OF
the surface only, for II must be remem
), hered that pair Of hares will produce
CT least 100 young in a year, including
D very big allowance for loss. Thes
AZ young wnen 8 mon hs old will each weig
about eight pounds, or will dress at abou
s. four pounds, making AZ least 400 pound
CT meat from a pair OF hare costing no
s. more than so. Tho cost Of feed TO max
E, this 400 pounds Of meat will not amour
to more than SIS. making actual cost .
80 400 pounds of dressed meat at SIS, or g.
cents per pound, The hides from thes
s. 100 hares II OF the cheapest grade !
d. worth 90 cents apiece. making prolit q
% $40 outside Of the meat.
e. Value OF meat dressed is at least |
cents per pound. but In new markets
% Is oftener sold for 20 cents. These A.
figures taken from actual experience
o. and backed up by people who have du
plicated these calculations by results an
a often done much better.
al Experience in the hare business Ia
proven that while people who war
: something chesp commence to breed fror
Is, meat stock they invariably, IN cours
20 of time begin to improve the stock an
drift into the raising OF fancy animall
o II raising hares for me7t Is a success
then raising them for fancy is stll NOR
profitable and decidedly more sstisfactor
and interesting, There is such an inteili
G. gent aristocratc looking appearance
n. about a Thoroughbred fancy hare tina
'meat stock" Is at once shaded into in
y Significance on matters OF style an
- beautiful appearance 4 pair OF gracsfi
thin ears. well set on eyes large, N
and expressive; body long. with wei
tucked up fiink; shoulders and bar
shaped in symmetrical curves; small an
~ tapering legs and feet with 6ne bon
and slnew all go In 10 make gr,cef
iii and racey looking animal, which commar
w like the animal itself, uristocratic price
Beautiful shades OF rufus red colo
ing, with wavy ticking are also valuab
points which cater to the eye OF Il
Il, fancier,
4 One OF the most interesting picture
6 Incidental To the raising Of hare 10 Il
% work of the doe in building her nest Z
.. the reception OF her young. If leh
~. her own instinct she would burr0w IN
the ground hole large enough 70 Graz
II. into and make a nest there, bu, IN
,al improylsed rab5itry nest box Of sui
en- able size Is furnished few days b.
W fore ''kindling" the doe VIII be seen
carry mouthfuls OF hay into the box al
arrange a nest with much more precisi'
,r rs 10 shape and fnish than some OF
else could do for her. When this is dor