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Show RABBITS WILL SUPPLEMENT MEAT SUPPLY Supplementing ' the suggestion made a few days ago by Food Administrator Ad-ministrator Wickard to "raise rabbits rab-bits in your back yard" to add to the total supply of food, the Fish and Wildlife Service points out that with meat rationing soon to begin, rabbits can help to provide the answer for the city dweller who wishes to grow a few meals at home. For the time, labor and expense involved, rabbits pay a handsome dividend in good eating, since they require little space and just ordinary care, it maintains. The U. S. Rabbit Experiment Station at Fontana, Calif., operated operat-ed by the Fish and Wildlife Service Serv-ice of the Department of the Interior, In-terior, is developing and recommending recom-mending simple and inexpensive equipment for the rabbitry to be built with available materials, oftentimes of-tentimes scrap, thereby eliminating eliminat-ing the use of strategic materials, George S. Templeton, director of the Station, says, that "three or four does and a buck of the medium-weight or heavier breeds will furnish the average family with all the rabbit meat that it will use.' A new pamphlet recently issued by the Service, "Domestic Rabbits in the Food for Freedom program" is primarily for use by persons desiring de-siring to establish small backyard rabbitries to supplement the family fam-ily meat supply. This pamphlet, Leaflet No. 218, gives complete instructions in-structions for selecting breeding stock and building hutches. It is available free of charge from either eith-er the U. S. Rabbit Experiment Station, Fontana, Calif., or the Fish and Wildlife Service, Merchandise Merch-andise Mart, Chicago, Illinois. According to Service officials, rabbits are now being raised by the millions in every state and in every climate from California to Maine. Wherever poulty raising is permitted, rabbits may be kept. In fact, many cities and towns throughout the West are removing restrictions on backyard raising of chickens and rabbits in order to give impetus to meat production at home, wherever practicable. Meat produced at home also has the advantage of alleviating transportation trans-portation difficulties. |