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Show (By DAVID E. LANTZ.) Inches at the to be turned The fact that rabbits are easily into the court. ground, The lower edge should are and a grown cheap and excellent be covered with 10 or Inches of soil substitute for the ordinary meats Is to prevent tbe animalsIt from digging likely to turn the attention of many out The upper edge Is also turned to persons rearing the animals. That inward to keep them from climbing they can be propagated without costly over. Brackets at ths tops of s investment in land and buildings Is a make tbe best support for tbe peculiar advantage. Further, the overhanging netting, although horison-ta- l presence on the farm of another anipieces of wood nailed to the posts mal which, like poultry, may be killed will answer. and prepared for the table entire and While not large profits, at short notice, is exceedingly desir- the business affording of raising rabbits In a si) able. (issr-ieIt All these make t&F&22& circumstances small way may be made an interesting jwramo 4 extremely probable that tbe business as well as a reasonably remunerative HE differentiation between theae of rearing rabbits will grow In Im- adjuncts to other pursuits. It Is adapttwo animals la a subject of unusual portance. ed to small vllalge places as well as sportsman-naturalto the interest The Belgian hare Is onq of the best to farms, and under careful manage" 1st. To trace the origin of the rabbits for table use. It weighs mors ment the returns from It are likely to popular misconception that the two than most breeds, develops very rap- Increase as one gains experience. Un-d- er mistake a names are synonymous, favorable circumstances It Is cap-- . runs: Some pest lords are looking on at a spec-tacl- e idly, and the quality of the raekt Is n to which even some of our Hon with ravening superior to all the others. The flem- able of expansion Into a serious vocaA furious in arms, the sportsmen- - of today must fang and claws tears some wild beasts. He lays ish giant is a Belgian hare bred ex- tion. The presence of rabbits In Inplead guilty, we, have to dive Into wolves low tnd defeats the Taurus in a strug- clusively for large slse, hut with the closures on the farm or on vlllagq the the not always limpid depths of gle, while ths hear towers away In terror. Wheth- result that the meat Is coarser and premises furnishes opportunity for ad early mediaeval history. For the er the artist evsr witnessd such a struggle In an less delicate In flavor. Theae charac- agreeable change In the family diet,' to more event which has probably cannot be ascertained; but It is quite possi- teristics are regarded by some per- a fact that la of considerable importarena do than any other with the promulgation of this d, ble, considering their great popularity during the sons as desirable, but this is largely A ance when ordinary meats are error was the famous bunt given by Charlemagne or In regions where they ara The blasts matter of individual taste. Most peocenturies. and seventeenth sixteenth fscsxm&scKWffjzS Haroun-al-RasblJiisaTfm&Agarr In the to the ambassadors of difficult to obtain. ' were caught In pitfalls and ple would prefer the white, f H&ih&RsrzizKS book: dank Hercylan woods that surrounded bis buntflesh of the Belgian distances, original great transported to tbe original ing lodge, Heristallum. According The likeness Is not a bad hare. It should be remarked, howi account by tbe monk Eglnbard of St Gall, tbe one, and In the above col- ever, that much of the excellence of FRESH VEGETABLES g aurochs were of such appearance lection of prints there are the rabbit as food depends upon lu to tbe men from tbe east that they could not three other pictures of cooking. As often prepared. It Is dry MAY BE OBTAINED even bear the sight of .them, and fled from tbe aurochs, and a fifth depict- and insipid; while In ths hands of an fiercattacked the side. The latter, by emperors experienced cook it becomes all that ing the lassoing of the est of these monsters, missed the vital spot on the island of Sar- ths most fastidious taste can wish. with the result that before brave Isambart could dinia. A contemporary and An especial requirement In cooking Eastern Writer Makes Sqggcs slay it the emperor was slightly wounded In tbe countryman of Stradanus, the Belgian hare Is that none of the tion That Is Worthy of Soma thigh and had bis nether garment torn into one Hans Dot. produced natural Juices of the meat be lost In shreds. Rushing to bis side, the assembled courConsideration. also an Interesting engrav- the process , j tiers offered to divert themselves of their. own The Belgian hare does not do well " of hn aurochs hunt " ing I ' v hose, but tbe emperor laughingly rejected their second when kept wild In open warrens. The which forms ths Br H. B. BUCKAM ) , himIntended to be show that offers, declaring little common English rabbit Is. better lor The lljp wsa.-sto-a U - was 'cue- -' print of his attractive self In his sorry plight to the fair Hildegarde, . entitled- .- VenatUmU. this jmrpese.J' A good many .Belgians tomary to see tha small farmer and; set who was a great huntress herself. Needless to et Aucupil have been turned out In various parts truck raiser going about tha streets 1 Viscatlonls, In 1581 by of ths United States, and in the vicin- from house to houso with hie pro-duesay, this adventure proved a mediaeval "coop published itypt,"' of the gaudiest kind,' but In the course of unTbe trip to towa waa aa Imsame enterprising Ant- ity of the city of New York and on the jhe numbered retellings the aurochs became a withat gave part of each days round, portant publishers werp sent, as was called the European bison, and since which waa made as reguplarly as the world ths the a time that perplexing confusion has reigned beun, usually at Just such an hour ovcollection. Beneath the autween these two animals. That the true aurochs, In day. Tba tanner had hie friends-anary ws,.read. rochs picture which became extinct three hundred years ago,' couplets patrons In town, who knew tbe Latin elegiac was an entirely different animal from the bison, worth end quality of his produce, and . swords, with, darts, Thus A Movable Hutch Having a Wire who ware wise whose name, alas! Is also on the list 6t animals enough and fortnnnt tnd light arrows men everyabout to share the aurochs fate, is now a fact Flewr, Which Enables the Rabbits to enough to make horned ths drive czxzsz&Zw&Kt where arrangements with Zrjear'fxsTwzz known to all scientific men. To Hie writer the Kat Grass Through the Netting. hlm to bring It to them, trash front-- ' aurochs Into pits. A rathpoor old bisons pathetic fate appeals more partha fields, dally. bison by so much as a word. As aurochs or er similar print eras produced fourteen years western cosit there ticularly, for when shooting In the Rockies In ' the authors the have, been seme r, But nowadays, for one' reason or after-bm- y were engraver, elaselco these tbe of Ifurnbsrg sportsgreat the seventies of last Century he stni saw them in of damage to crops by wild another, this complaints men other etched platen and this would the sins who dose sporting particular activity on observers, support herds of ten thousand. But as the men who can In rapid succession, half a dosen Belgian haras As a .rule, however, tha part of tha farmer has fallen, animals both Then these had then follow. that theory already seen same have to the marvellous sight claim and fortunately for the farmer, these away wonderfully. In lu stead ha become quite extinct In western Europe. portraits by Tempests, ths pupil of Stradanus,In animals, will before long follow these lordly Inhabitants when obliged to shift for oo ms, to a shows we It In so when one sixteenth the. of which far large axtant, tha cry and reproduce. prints Europe, century, of the wilds to the happy hunting grounds, the -fall an easy prey to their tha pnsh-car- t themselves, It for was of tha hawkar, a speas art was concerned, had at last been aroused bun held, wild aws ths what gigantic study of the past history .of these two species wherewith enemies end disappear within n few cies of middleman .who must look-i- o formidable-lookin- g machine from mediaeval invention its ths of a stupor by depicts has for some people unusual attractions. And vthis occupation alone' for his profit. the buU could bs attacked and brought - down. months printing, and an extraordinary demand had not the least interesting phase of It Is the colharas ' may be success fully and who Is usually not so much eon- Belgian rematter taken seriously, for need not bs up pictorial sprung. pictures Illustrating Tempestas lecting of pictures made at a time when both cent exploration e new worlds and tbe various' for his Roman studio was n ring but a work- managed In two ways; (1) Entirely earned to supply a friend with tho beasts were still roaming over the krastes of forms of the chase, there were produced quite a shop where apprentice hands turned out a vast In hutches, oxil) in outdoor fenced beat to ha had aa ha la to do a good the earth, or had but recently disappeared. number of pictures of the aurochs by artists, mass of prints of little'or no, value In an enquiry runs or courts, with hutches for does business, and that is but natural. Of the earliest of all pictures of what was probfew set had ever a of live whom of very this sort His English contemporary of the when haring young, and sleeping , One cannot but Infer that this upon eyes ably meant to be the bison, an Interesting artiwild seen have capmay specimen, though they pen, Edward TopsetL'ln his Illustrated natural hutches for other stock. Tha butch change must be more1 pr less to tho cle which recently appeared in an Illustrated weekones. The one artist of whom we positively hodge-pofttive called thO Historic of Fours-Foote- system with various modifications Is disadvantage of. tho customer. He 1 history ly, In which the roof pictures in the Altamira know that he had before him at least a stuffed Beastes,(1807) only added to the exist- the more common, and la the only the loser ia ths mala by this new or Cave were reproduced, gave one a capital idea. was the Viennese engraver Augustin 'A confusion. specimen Bison, he says, Is a beast method adopted by rabbit funders der' of things, though the farmer he ing After a gap of untold centuries we reach the In Nurnberf about 1503), who as (born Hlrschvogel may very appear by his figure pre- who raise for show. Tbe nee of small probably somewhat In the same posistrange various pictorial record left to us by the chisIllustrated the famous travel book of Baron whlbb' by nany authors is takeu for Urns, runs or rabbit courts to give the ani- tion too. Why does he not come to fixed els, gravers or brushes of the classic ages. the authority most frequently quoted la some for a Bogle or wild oxe, others, for a mals healthful exercise In fine weath- town as he used.toT Doubtless more Among those who have made Important discovconnection with the aurochs, for he was absolute Ranglfer, and many for ths beast Tarantus or er- Is of edvantags than out causa contributes to this reeries respecting the distribution of tbe aurochs. Tba rabbltry may occupy part or all sult. He Is farming on a larger nod the last who saw the beast observer Buffe. Intelligent ly And to dow that ho really meant what Zurich Professor Conrad Keller, the In its wild state, and left pictorial records of his he said, he affixes a picture of what Is unmistak- of a barn or shed, or be built In a more extensive scale than he used to, soologtst, occupies a prominent place. His diswas gifted with presHerbersteln Impressions. ably a reindeer! . Fortunately, however, he adds, sheltered apace In the angle between and has found n ready market tor all coveries In the ruins of the ancient palace of cient eyes, for he foresaw that the aurochs was as pictures of ths bison and of the aurochs, re- buildings or walls Tha Indoor rab- that he can produce In tha modem King Minos In Crete of no fewer than sixteen doomed to speedy extinction. Hence on his sevThe middleman, who la ready to take etT plicas of ths ' tws prints by Hlrschvogel out of bltry has decided advantages. born-core- s and one skull of what unquestionably eral expeditions to the unknown Interior of RusRenm Com men-tari- piece should he well ventilated, but .hia bands all that ha has for sale. Herberatelns Moeoovttiqarua was the original wild ox of Europe, or aurochs, sia as the ambassador, first of Emperor Maxiwhich, as vs have already mentioned, are not subject to draughts of, cold or He la no longer under the necessity show that itHved there at one period, and that milian in 1515-18- , then on many different occaths most correct representations pub- damp air. These may be prevented by or, going In search of pu chasers of among subthe famous legend of the mlnotaur has a sions as Charles V.s and Ferdinand's emissary, at a period when ths aurochs still existed. ventilators In the roof, or by e system bis wares. The self constituted agent lished stratum of truth. From his pages we borrow an he made notes about It, and, what was much more In England, ths belif that th aurochs was- - a of elbowed pipes passing through the of the publio comes to him volunt- - . illustration of an Important fresco in Kaossos debison-lik- e back some with creatsrs continued , throughout the sides of the building and reaching a rily and bargains with him for what him' Important, actually brought picting an aurochs In the act of Impaling a helpless-skins and skulls, which he had mounted In his The picture takenfromSsra- - ightofJLprlieet above ths open-Ing- bshasfand usuany pays him" a fair centuiy. eighteenth looking Is victim, while a bold house la Ylenna.- - and from - which - Hlrschvogel UlarkeTJuBus Caesar, published. In 1711, ' too." , " over back . actually turning a somersault of the his celebrated picture drew shows Hutches for the Belgian hare should price, , 'what probably the "extriofdinary .Ignorance still" at-But a writer In, aa eastern dally -- the 1 beast,-- a third, possibly femalelookercn aurochs. To differentiate he drew next to it a the anlnud with antlers like an Inverted be somewhat larger than those In- publication makes a suggestion which tempting to seise the bulls tall, the scene being picture of a bison. As these two portrait!, umbrella being a bison, or Bos germanus, and tended for smaller breeds They Is well worth considering by any Is probablynacted In an arena It possible that which have been published scores of times, will the beast In the center an aurochs. The graver should be built of good lumber, should welcome an approach to tha the Theseus story came from the slaughter of be familiar to nil interested In this matter, we of Holsab of Zurich, continues the misconcep- hsva tight floors, and should have at old order of marketing. It la this: . Several in such other exhlbitlonn piccaptives - will merely quote the inscriptions placed by Hertion; Indeed, go one better, for the bison Is least 13 square feet of floor space and These are the days of the antomobilo tures have been recently discovered which bebersteln over the two pictures, for it is n perOf n height oM feet If there here turned tuts an "American aurochs. Almost everyplenty tiffing. long to the Minos period, L e., between 1000 and Illustrations of our two beaut, of .room In tbe rabbltry It Is best to andpleasure .numerous-othe- r fectly correct differentiation. Tbe picture of the In these times, high or low, mao-ag- es one, 1S00 B. C. Professor Kellers highly Instructive. bison haatbe following: T am a Blaon. am we hare not the space to speak at length. One have the hatches separate; but they to gqt possession of one, by one ' many other Illustrations of Bos writings contra, called by thf Poles a Buber, by the Germans a of tbe most characteristic of the latter type is ere usually set ia tier or stacks, two means or another.' . But Instead 6 go' prlmlfeaiun Blsont or Damthler, and by the ignorant an Hamilton Smith picture of. the of three in height Each hutch ta the the aimlessly hither and yon. for tha Over the woodcut of the aurochs: T aurochs. Skipping tens of centuries, we reach, the BesThis Is a painting, dating. It is believed rank Is complete in Itself, so that its ing of riding merely, why not pleasure in most of ancient which the originated am an Urns which is called by the Poles a Tur, tiaries, from the first quarter of the sixteenth century position may be shifted et any time. an have objective point In view, some outset we when touched the at speakthe period A rabbit court may be by the Germans an Aurochs and until now by discovered in Augsburg not quite a hundred or paved the In' country, and. farmhouse aurochs-hunt These exing of Charlemagnes the Ignorant n Bison. The inscriptions In the years ago. This painting has mysteriously dis- floored, or it may be a grass court surof a generous supply or add not records do various editions Herbersteins volume appeared ceedingly primitive pictorial appeared, but as accurate copy waa made. For rounded by a rabbit-proo- f fence. fresh vegetables and produce one purmuch to our Information; the choice hurts one, In several languages the first "modem picture of the bison that ap- Sleeping hatches Inside the court may pose and object of the outing? Quite vary trifllngly, but the as Germans describe that state of uncertainty In above, which are taken from the edition of 1568, peared in England we have also to go to Ger- be small boxes of any sort if they are a quantity could easily be carried regard to what the monastic artists meant -- to man sources, and, strangely enough, to tbe same stout and waterproof. They should home thus, and the pleasures of the give the sense in the best form. -- represent by their crude attempts. Skipping a Shortly after Herbersteln the Flemish painter city, for It eras Augsburgs most famous animal have sliding doors to online the rab- trip extended for several days by the few more centuries, we at last reach. In the beStradanus. who lived and worked for over fifty who drew the firs bits if desired, and should also have painter, RId!ngr (1887-1787of food and relishes uplife-lik- e A countryman of hia, one J. 8 I mall holes near the top for ventila- better quality ginning of the fifteenth century, fairly intelligent years in Florence (from 1553 to 1605), produced picture. . table. on the accounts of the animal's habitat, and are fura drawing of an aurochs engaged in n terrific Muller, who lived many years in London, engrav- tion. If n court is used, hutches will the fanner will not, or cannot, If nished with drawings presenting features suffan fine arena where he was matched set of plates representing wild still be needed for breeding does. struggle In ed, in 1758, a find time any more to coma to the iciently distinct to Indicate, even to eyes accusanimals aft ef Rldlngers drawings from nature against n lion, (wo wolvea and a bear. This A rabbit-proo- f fence to inclose- - a cltyr then get "our tbe auto and go tomed to photographic accuracy, the Identity of original drawing is not the least tnterestlng of Among them Is one of Hhe bison, called by him grass court should be made of heavy after him! Strike his trail as the the animal the plcture.means to represent the twenty odd ancient" pictures of, the aurochs the buffalo, and underneath Is a lengthy and poultry netting 5 or 6 feet wire and of hunters do when they go out with - in the writers collection . In 1578 the Very curious Is - the circumstance, to which, fairly correct description in English, which be Antwerp mesh. The poets, projecting their hounds after tbe fox, and run. by the way, nobody has so far drawn- attention, publisher PhUIpGallepu Wished this and one also copied from Rldinger. But this and other 8 or 4 feet above the ground, should him to earth! And when the run is nd three other sporting drawings, by that none of tbe French sporting books of the hundred Isolated efforts have not .entirely prevented the be well set outside the edge bf tbe over and the return-temad- e, L for, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, such as .Roy, 7 tha Florentine master, and underneath each of dissemination of the old mistake, for living au- e&ort. The netting Is stapled to the one, would ten times rather have n Modus. Gace de la Bulgne Gaston Phoebus, the engravings there is a Latin inscription. The thorities still tell us, quite seriously, that they posts, leaving a projection of 6 inches fresh vegetables than-ha- v Fontaines-Guerin- , and one under the plate reproducing tba drawing mentions either the have grassed aurochs topand" about l 11 bag of a poor, butchered fox. the-post- t(T If I best-know- high-price- d finer-graine- terror-instillin- 1 1 ' s -- last-name- d -- Johann-Bib-mache- -- , -- d e Her-berstei- well-know- n l, , "uel bstl-fight- er -- ;j- 5 who-woul- Jt i a ' the-purch- ), i - I jJM.'Wilp''- |