Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-04
NEW INDUSTRY THAT. HAS !
SPRUNG UP IN VIRGINIA
People Going Rabbit and Hare Rails.
ing on Large Scale to Help
Win the War.
FORM BREEDERS ASSOCIATION
United States Government Wants 1O,-
100000 Homes to Have Ranches.
Best Of Meat That Is Cheaper
Than Chicken.

War. the consequent necessity OF
| food conservation. and the like of that,
have started up an entirely new in
! dustry in Virginia. Like many other
| good things this new industry has had
it's beginning in ana about Richmond.
and the Indications are that 1t Will
spread all over the state in very
short while. 1t is the growing OF rab-
bits and harcS for eat.
Several patriotic f"cnS in the city
and in the suburbs + % gone regularly
In the business. anf so far they have
been very successful The rabbit rails
crS have become numerous enough for
tho formation OF an association which
has for it's object the pushing OF the
Industry until it snail be one among
the leaders in Virginia. Week before
last the Virginia Rabbit Breeders and
Fancicrs Association was duly organ
lied in this city with about dozen
charter members The officers for the
ensuing year are: president, DR.. a. L.
WinGheld: first vicc-prcsident. r. C.
Gullcy; second vice president J. c.
Wilson; MISUNDERSTANDING. w. c.
Sm;thdcal
TEN MILLION RAnUIT
GROWERS FoH THE COUNTRY
Tho association proposes to cooper
ate with the United States government
in spreading rabbit and hare raising
propaganda throughout Virginia and
the South and do all in it's power to
interest the people in the industry. 1t
hopes to get all OF the farmers to rails
Ing the animals and ere long to have
rabbit raising as common in this State
as chicken raising. To that end an
office will he maintained in this city.
from which would-be rabbit raisers
can obtain all the information desired
as to how to obtain stock to start with.
how 10 manage that stock and, in
IN al To
and prepare for market rabbit and
mare meat TO take the place on the civ
ilian tables of beef. pork. bacon and
all meats that can be used for the
"rmIes OF ms country and its allies.
Inc United States government is
snending good deal OF money in the
eftort to get the people Interested in
this new industry, and officials who
are ut the head of this work have re-
Gently made statements TO the effect
mat they are succeeding splendidly in
some parts OF the country and that
they are expecting especially great
Things from the South which. because
OF IT'S climate. is eminently the
raohit-srowtnG part or the country.
SUPERIOR MEAT THAT IS
CHEAPER THAN CHICKEN
The government agents and the Vir-
GINA ASSOCIATION are circulating liter
ature which sets forth the value of
rabbit meat and the chcapness OF II
whcn the growers or the animals he
come numerous. This literature also
tells how easy IL is 10 raise and care
TOT rabbits and harcs and what breeds
are best suited to this latitude. IL is
also set forth that rabbits can be raised
~ virginia much more chcaply than
,rhickchs. and that the, meat is just as
good ana WIFI GO much IItther Ss a
substitute for beef and bacon That
me goVernme ~is i'm carnest- tapout
mus matter is shbWn by 'the fact that
II mas prepared 10 circularize 10000. 900
hoines in the country this year on the
subject. and really expects to get shat
many people 10 growing rabbits for
nome meat and to sell to others who
do not grow the animals
member Of the Virginia associa-
ZION. who is himself one of the largest
rabbit breeders in the State, and has
a wc!l-equipped rabbit ranch in High
land Park. informs The Times Dis
patch that there are already in Virginia
between sixty and 100 rabbit breeders.
mostly right around Richmond some
OF them in the heart OF the city. He
SAYS the Belgian and the Flemish Clan,