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Show RABBIT FANCIERS TO FORM ASSOCIATION Pet Stock Owners Invited to Meet Tonight; Food Conservation Among Objects of Movement. A number of rabbit fanciers of L'tah have called a meeting at the Hotel L'tah at 8 o'clock tonight for the purpose of bringing those together who raise rabbits 1 In a small way. A branch of the National : Breeders and Fanciers association will be ; oreanized. The chief object In forming the branch, those who sent out the call say, lis the stimulation of interest in belter ! stock and for the betterment and improvement im-provement of all pet 'animals. The association unites all breeders for I protection and improvement, creates standards for all breeds and varieties, promotes shows, regulates their nianage-I nianage-I ment and classification, standardizes judging and is the only association in I America having a registration system for i rabbits. All fanciers of pet stock, in-j in-j eluding cats, pi-eons, bantam chickens. doers, cavies and rabbits, have been in-I in-I vitd to atte id. The government is urging the use of I rabbits to conserve meat. Before the 1 war England imported more ihan 12.u00 , tons of rabbit meat from New Zealand and Australia. The production Is in-, in-, creasing in a number of stales and nib-bit nib-bit meat now can he found in the public market. Noted physicians have recommended recom-mended the flesh as food. .Many California fanciers on small truck farms are making more money from their rabbits than from all else tuey produce. Ilabbits can be raised in any "back yard and thrive on dry bread, grass clippings and weeds. |