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that she will not breed so often as she should dofor their Interest. Now if your Rabbets breedonly six Months in the Year, which is to sup-pose the least, and that you was to save onlyfive of a Kindle to each Doe, you would havein a Year six hundred young Rabbets ; which,one with another, to follow the Price of theHammersmith and some other Rabbet-mongers,would sell for Six-pence a piece at a Month old,without consuming hardly any Hay, Bran orOats; so that then your Warren would affordthe Value of 15 I. per Annum.

Out of which, if we take 3 /. 6 j. h

which is the Charge of their ( I. s. d.extraordinary Food, there willrn 14 00

remain neat Prosit - )

By which with the Prosit arising^from Ducks, Fish, Fruit, &V.>30 04 00

you are a Gainer, - J

And the Intrails of the Rabbets will always beof Use to your Fish, if you bestrow them in theWater while they are fresh, or else the Fish willnot eat them. But we have yet remainingninety six Rods of Ground : You very wellknow that Rabbets, when they are about threeor four Months old * are very large, especiallythe Males that have been castrated; and thenthey are worth more than I have mentioned, asthey feed upon the extraordinary Diet.

In what I have said, I speak of Things at theirlowest Rate ; • for to mention them at a retailedPrice, they would come to near double theValue.

When you build your Warren, provide that theGround fall a little, and lie hollow in the middle,so that the Rain may easily pass away, and thatthe Floor may be wafh’d, if there is occasion;

when