Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1914-02-07
HOW TO START A BELGIAN
HARE FARM.
A Successful Raiser Gives Pertinent
Points on the Subject.

gan nd1e DuSiileoS, although IL is TO
raise only few for your own table,
in purchasing foundation stock, do not
make the mistake of buying cheap
good nothing culls, simply because
they are cheap. If you buy culls, you
will invariably raise culls. 1t costs
no more to raise good stock than
stock of inferior quality, and the re-
suits are far more satisfactory Do
you expect to get as good a horse
for $50 as you would if you paid 500
for him? Or as good a cow for $40 as
you would if you paid 1902 Not by
any means. So it is with the Belgian
hare. You cannot expect anything
but a Gull for a dollar, but when pur-
chasing, go to reliable breeder and
for from SIS to $40 you can purchase
a hrst-class pair. and at the age OF
breeding. Oftentimes the breeder OF
whom you buy will breed the doe to
his best stud buck without extra
charge, and send you buck with the
doe that is not related to her, or her
prospective young. The writer makes
a speciality of doing this kind of bust
ness, and it meets with the entire ap-
proval of my customers every where
Whoever you purchase of, do so of
a reliable breeder, and pay him an
honest price, and do not expect some
thing for nothing. This not only APP
plies to all kinds of stock, be il horse
or Belgian hare, but merchandise as
we'll AS the old saying goes: THE
bests none too good" applies to one
and all alike The beginner is no ex
ception, but it is really most appli-
cable to his case, for if he purchase
culls and gets bad start, it will likely
result in giving him "the blues" and
in many cases cause him to abandon
the business before he has even be-
come competent to judge of its mer-
its. With a good start and select
ing the best at all times thereafter.
you cannot help but produce that
which you may we'll feel proud of
Your neighbors may laugh at you and
call you crank" or something else
but you have the satisfaction OF know
ing that what you have is not trash,
and your neighbors will see sooner or
later that you have the very best. and
will want some of your stock
cheap" because il is you, and you
are neighbor. This is your time to
get even, and you can, by making him
pay you far living price for your
stock. If he buys cheap stock, you
need have no fears from him compel
ing for the ribbons in the show room,
and he will find people who are look
ing for good stock will pass his and
go to you who has the best.
No special building is required. A
barn, stable or shed, reasonably warm
in winter and permitting of thorough
ventilation. but free from draughts.
is all that is necessary in the way of
building. Amy building can be fitted
up quickly by yourself with the or
binary tools at hand, and using ordin-
airy oak or pine lumber found around
most places going to waste. From
my own practical experience | would
advise hutches to be made eight feet
long by four feet wide, and about
three feet high double deck, or three
IN a tier. as being the most economical
and practical all around hutches. If
you should have a building 20x20 feet
square, that is ample room for large
rabbitry. Divided off as | have ad-
vised the building will make ten
hutches single deck, 20 double deck,
or thirty if made three tier high, and
at the same time leave a four-foot
space in the center for walk and
place for feeding Understand those
hutches are larger than most writers
on the Belgian hare recommend, but
make no mistake in making them any
smaller for good roomy hutch is to
be recommended at all times Each of
these give ample room for a doe and
large litter of young till they are
six weeks or two months old and are
ready to wean. Use matched lumber
for the bottoms of the hutches, or
floors, and let them slant about two
inches from front to back for drain
age. The partitions may be of l-inch
wire netting, but | would recommend
twelveinch board all around the
hutches as they will not see each
other so much and in fact there is no
objection to making the partition
wholly of boards, and some breeders
recommend this. By making the par
tition partly with wire netting it
makes the hutches cooler in the hot
summer. The doors should be made
of l-inch wire netting well fastened