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Rh evenings can be spent on the work in the home basement. The hutches can all be built in sections and nailed or screwed together in the place they are to occupy in a few minutes' time.

Do not build a large number of hutches until you determine just how many rabbits you want to raise and feed. It is better to commence in a small way and gradually expand until you have reached the point desired. Rabbits, you know, are entirely different from chickens. You can have five generations in one year, so it is easily possible to "make haste slowly" and still get on famously in less than a year.

Plan No. 1 shows the largest rabbitry which would be practical in the average city backyard. It is 6 by 12 feet in size and was built on the open shed style. This rabbitry has three tiers of hutches, each 2-1/2 feet wide by 4 feet long. A nest box was built in each hutch just one foot wide, so that left an outside hutch still 3 feet long. This allowed three