Show angora raising good business anyone interested in buying an angora sweater on the hoof you can do that tit at the macfarlane angora farm in layton where they raise the t he angora rabbit every three or four weeks these rabbits sprout a crop of angora that is suitable for plucking you dont shear or cut this particular harvest just take abhold and pull it out like dandelions out of the front lawn the rabbits dont donl take offense at this seemingly crude operation on the contrary they rather like it if the plucking done on schedule the fur accumulates and has a tendency to become all matted and knotted up p and useless seless u for all practical purposes the rabbit thus shorn of his commercial value it if not his native adornment dorn ment and being a sensitive creature falls prey to a cur curious ious i disturbance that prompts him to eat his own wool this of course may be merely a cheap publicity stunt calculated to promote ro the price of angora by demonstrating on that it is good enough to eat or it may be that the rabbit driven despondent at having to go takes this means of committing hari bari kari for whether it be publicity stunt or hari bar karl kari the rabbit who goes on a diet of his own wool soon finds the stuff bunching up in his in nards bards a complication which generally results in his demise so the thing to remember in raising angora rabbits is that you not only owe it to yourself but to the rabbit as well to pluck him regularly every time you pluck a rabbit you gather in a harvest of 3 or 4 ounces and after accumulating a pound or two you put it in a box and shoot it off to market anon and a check comes back amounting to 11 1180 or thereabouts for every pound you sent wet learned all this from the macfarlane rabbit farm where the angora population at the last count stood at eighty six last may there were only 4 does and one buck 3 aut U t the way it is with rabbit |