Show y The Rabbit Business a as a Juvenile Juvenil Educator By Dy Edwin EdWI a We Ve e as American n citizens Americas America's s y greatest piece of human mechanism m. m have havo before us as tho the greatest question ques t r. r Urns tion L in i our our lives the tho edu education of or our children or our offspring or In plain words It It is the greatest question before before be be- fore Coro us to keep our race up t to what Itis It ItIs Is and doing our best we must make o oIt it better If possible The statement that I have o just made ma may mean many things and it may mal malio o Uio tiro reader of oC this article think many things that I do not have In my mind at the time of or writing this We all want to make our children as strong and healthy as possible and give them themas as ns good a physical l body as wo we can I as well as teaching them to tho the bost best of our knowledge to take tale care of oC this hoar bony and use it to the best advantage of of themselves th their lhoir lr countr country and their God We may want our children to tobo tobo bo ho many things when they become men and wom women n. n We Ve may want them ta tit bo be warriors as we hear the Gor- Gor ns educate a e their children Wo We may Y 0 want them to to be bo ministers of oC the Gospel Gospel Gospel Gos Gos- pel we may want them to bo be mush mush- clans of or great grent note maybe schoolteachers schoolteachers school school- teachers possibly mechanics and f if any of oC these walks of oC life lICo are Me what wo we have hl planned for our little t It Is true truo that In most cases ho he can cannot cannot not get so vcr very much good out of oC raising raising rais rais- ing rabbits In m my mind at the present time lime I J have three main reasons why It is well for children to raise rabbits First because raising rabbits rabbit is a aI I good business for Cor anyone It Is profitable profitable prof prot- Hable for Cor a man woman or child to indulge in Anybody in any walk of life can cant make more mo money money e out of ot I pure bred bred rabbits than anything he can invest his dollars in in proportion to to the doll dollars ls l's he has Invested h This I i is not my my to discuss the profitableness profit profit- of it this time but will do it I i G at it a later date The second reason Is that it gives tho the child employment I Especially If It we live in the city we would give a great deal to keep our ourson I son son off tho the streets How much his bod body would be to the tho good If IC he was at nt home ome caring for his own rabbits than thant if t he lie was prowling in the str streets ets Aiso Also Al Al- so so how much better his moral cond cond- Lion ti m would be if it he was at home with I his mind on a moneymaking money business I of or his 0 The third and best bost real reason rea rea- reason l 7 son son of or all is that the rabbit business oj while small is good for tor the the 1 reason reason ason r that that It t gives gives this growing likeness of ol h ours an opportunity to learn the different different differ differ- ent eat business ideas that some of us fathers Cathers would have done well I if we wo knew A boy can easily easBy learn many business principles from a 3 small business business busi busi- ness like this that In later days he can very profitably apply to whatever business he ho happens to be engaged in There Is many a proud father who especially with his first son has bou bought ht when the child first begins to walk a small walking machine called when I was a bo boy a walker and our proud and anxious father Cather puts his hisson son Into mite this walker and is eager that this little son of oC his will son learn to walk We s see e the father Cather every da day put the babe bahe into the machine and very patiently yet firmly guide the little fellows fellow's footsteps that he ma may Boon soon be able to walk and as the child walks his father step by step sees that his son mak makes s as honorable honorable honor honor- able a man as possible Most of oC us want our eons Bons to be business men I Some of at us want our daughters to be or orin In plainer and truer words some Borne of o O ir r daughters who see tl thAy U v can not do better when they reach maturity decide themselves to be business women women wo wo- woI I men for a while at least The while i Is always indefinitely S Some me of oC our sons are wanted to be doctors lawers lawyers lawyers law law- ers and things at the first glance would tell us that a business education tion was unnecessary for Cor them but bu w when we come como to think more carefully careful careful- ly we wo we will see seo that a b business ss education education education tion would be very ery fitting for them thorn I If we Ve stop to think a minute nearh nearly near near- ly h lyall all the rich men that are of ot any benefit to the world did not have their wealth given them Most of them thorn were man enough to make mako It them them- se selves ves Nearly all or of of the tho tho rich men men who have not lost their fortunes ar arJust are j jut Just st st. barely holding onto them merely merely merely mere mere- ly parasites to tho the world as they usually usually us us- do not work but just merely exist ex ex- 1st in a selfish laz lazy luxury to himself We Va all all- allwill will agree that we would rather rath rath- er le leave e our son just a little mone money or at all with a business education education education tion of or how haw t to make more than we would to leave him a whole lot and f leave him no responsibility or care caro or anything that will make him work worl M My solution for Cor the tho problem is as folS follows role fol lows As soon as the boy is from Crom el eight ht to twelve years eurs old as soon as he either naturally naturally- has or you can create in him himan an ant Interest in anything buy him a apall at t pair pall of rabbits Tell him they aro are his that when he sells any the money S is Js his Of OC cour course o we can see that that- this money of oC our sons son's is rightly spent but we must not pocket it ourselves as there Is nothing that will make malte our our so soil lose s nc i in iLlis us quicker k r. r nth i 6 rtH t i r teed feted c and it f r Rill I In III r 4 en W Wi N i L' L L''S S 'S Ali Inti r. r t J l his stock carefully carefully and never forget or neglect them Teach h ni pi the conservation conservation conservation con con- of oC feed and yet ct do not nol let him him tot got ot the Idea of stinginess into his I head hend Have him to understand that his animals must be warm and dr dry at nt night and shady and have plenty plent of of access to r In hot weather v Do Donot Donot Donot not hammer hammor ever every litle stop step into him I but teach him to use uso some somo Let him know lwow they are his and that the responsibility rests on him In buying your start show him the value of good blood the discriminating discriminating ing features of good good- Individuals In your our salesmanship teach him to be truthful honest and to back up what he says If the bo boy gets In a tight place once in a l while make him stand to his word even en if It ilC he lie does lose loso a lit lit- tle tie It is all right for him to recommend recommend mend his stock to tho fullest extent but no more than that Teach him all these things not in a mixed up muddle but hut each ench detail definitely and I show them all clearly and then see ace f if each business attribute uto he has S learn learn- learned ed can an not very ery profitably profi ta bo be applied to his business adventures In the tho big n world orld even en f if the start was just aNew a Now New Zealand red rabbit |