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42 sprinkled over the floor to absorb the moisture. Once a week the inside of the hutches should be sprayed with a good rabbit disinfectant to kill such germs as may be lurking there. This could be done Saturday afternoons or Sunday mornings.

The domesticated rabbit, once he is understood, should appeal to all busy people as the one animal that can be kept with the minimum of effort and attention, provided the details are correct as to housing and feeding in the beginning.

And because he is a profitable animal and a clean animal, a thing of beauty as well as of commercial value, is the large reason he has won more than 900,000 friends in the past two years, for the recent statistics of a breeding association shows that more than that number of people are now breeding the domesticated rabbit.