Show TURN AGAINST J I RABBIT DIETl DIET Germans Tire of Bunny a as s Steady Food I BERLIN DERLIN March MarchI 13 Germans Germans are ar e turning against the use of tame rabbits rab rob bits as food tood Rabbit sausage was a staple of the Teut n table in wartime and Germans explain Its present unpopularity unpopularity unpopularity un un- un- un popularity by saying they had too much of ot it In that thal hunger period Millions of tame rabbits were Imported Imported imported Im Im- im- im ported from Belgium and Holland by the states and the municipalities and sold at a nominal cost to the citizens who established rabbit hutches and bred them to replenish the beef and i pork supply in the war Berlin BerHn alone bought marks' marks worth of rabbits In one order for which the city Is still indebted Whole trainloads of the little animals were distributed from 1917 to the middle middle mid mid- dle of the following year Many families tasted no other meat but rabbit for months and the sweetIsh sweet sweet- sweetish ish flavor of it palled Then came a time when the cost of rabbit feed became became became be be- came so high that the citizens were compelled to kill klU the animals and eat them or see them starve Soon the rabbit houses on the roofs of buildIngs buildIngs buildings build- build Ings on balconies In backyards gardens gardens gar gar- dens and odd corners of alleys and streets disappeared Wild rabbit Is still sold in the market market mar mar- ket stalls but the tame variety of the species has virtually vanished unla unla- I 1 i |