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Rh, but it should be fed with regularity. It is regularity that gives it the greatest gains. Haphazard feeding at irregular intervals will not produce any exceptional success. But since the rabbit, like the horse, will eat at all hours of the night, the busy business man can feed them when he comes home from work, even if it happens to be after dark.

Only two feedings a day are required, morning and night and since any man can care for two dozen rabbits in about fifteen minutes morning and night, there is no reason why the business man or woman should hesitate to breed rabbits because of lack of time to take care of them.

It isn't the time spent on them that counts so much as it is the thoroughness and the promptness of the care given. But where they are only half taken care of, more time is necessary in the end than if the work was done properly from the start.

The hutches should be cleaned out every morning, if they have solid floors and sawdust