{"1": {"fulltext": "BONANZA RABBITRY\\n930 Grand View Avenue Los Angeles, California\\nFASHODA, CHAMPION OF THE WORLD.", "height": "3367", "width": "2154", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "2.F 455\\n.?ll\\n66309\\n1", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "222SH\\nLibrary of Congress\\nTwo Copies Received\\nJUL 20 1900\\nCopyright ootry\\nTjve\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDelivered to\\nORDER DIVISION,\\nif 27 1900\\nPRINCE CHARMING\\nAt 13 months. Weight 8^ lbs. Sire, Yukon Jr.; he by imported Champion Yukon, champion\\nof two continents in his day; dam. Queen Inez, she by imported Ambrose and out of imported\\nPrincess Inez. These are among the choicest of blood lines in existence.\\nPrince Charming is all that his name implies. Itt shape he is the cap-sheaf of his tribe.\\nSuch length and beautifully-rounded body, even in size at flank, compared with girth over\\nheart, has never before been seen on this continent or elsewhere. Adding to these qualities an\\nabsolutely perfect color,\u00e2\u0080\u0099extreme vigor and rich blood lines make him a charmer.\\nStudy his beautifully symmetrical make-up, as illustrated in his picture, all you may, yet\\nyou can never appreciate him until you have seen him. A half-minute\u00e2\u0080\u0099s look at him is sufficient\\nto warm the soul of a fancier. Stud fee, SS0.00.\\nWe challenge the world for a purse of $500.00 to out-class him. Not for sale.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "PRINCE OF THE REALM\\nAt 5 months. Weight 7J4 lbs. Sire, Champion Fashoda; dam, Gracie; she by imported Lord\\nBritain and out of Bonanza Beauty. This is the best matured specimen, age considered, that\\nwe know of. He has ticking more abundant and fully as handsomely distributed as had his sire\\nat twelve months of age, and his color is absolutely perfect and this, too, is something re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmarkable. What his color will be when he gets his third coat is something that we are unable\\nto predict, but invariably the color improves with the coming of each successive coat. For\\nintelligence, spirit and vigor we never saw his equal. He is a prodigj Not for sale.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE SCORE-CARD SYSTEM OF\\nJUDGING.\\nWe are, without reserve, in favor of\\nthe score-card system of determining\\nthe relative merits of hares, as the\\nonly practicable, aennite and permanent\\nmethod of deciding the value of a speci\u00c2\u00ac\\nmen and affording satisfactory means of\\ncomparison with other specimens. This\\nis a new method and a radical departure\\nfrom the method of judging by com\u00c2\u00ac\\nparison, which has obtained for so long\\nin England. As an American invention\\nand in the line of progress it naturally\\nfails to find favor in the eyes of the\\nEnglish, who are wedded for life to their\\nown ideas. Some American breeders\\nand writers also, we are sorry to see,\\nhave taken up an agitation against this\\nmethod. But we venture the prediction\\nthat, one year from now, no other\\nmethod will be employed in this country.\\nIt may be that the score cards now in\\nuse\u00e2\u0080\u0094and there are several\u00e2\u0080\u0094are not per\u00c2\u00ac\\nfect. But the underlying principles are\\nas firm as a rock and experience will\\ndemonstrate those changes necessary to\\nmake the system as near perfection\\nas is possible in a world of imperfec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions.\\nIn the first place, the score card is of\\ntremendous advantage to every breeder\\nand owner of a hare. The method of\\ncomparison, that is, placing two hares\\nside by side and deciding which of the\\ntwo is the better animal, then taking\\nthat winner ,and comparing it with\\nanother, and so on in endless chain, is\\nimpracticable for the breeder. He surely\\ncould not take a hare under his arm\\nand go traveling over the country to com\u00c2\u00ac\\npare it with all other hares. This would\\nbe expensive. Besides, after comparing\\none hare in this way, and learning\\nwhether it was better or poorer than\\nall other hares, he would have to start\\nout with another hare and make the\\nsame round. That would be ridiculous.\\nThere must be some standard of com\u00c2\u00ac\\nparison and a scale of units, ending in\\none hundred, is the only practicable scale\\nin this case.\\nIf a breeder has once had his hares\\nscored by a competent authority he then\\nhas something definite and permanent\\nto go by. He can study the cards and\\nthe animals and form some sort of a\\ndefinite mental conception of values in\\na hare. In the same way he can com\u00c2\u00ac\\npare his own stock and their score cards,\\nwith the stock of other breeders. Having\\na definite value nxed to each element in\\nthe standard of excellence he can see\\nwherein his stock excels and wherein it\\nfalls snort. He will himself, after some\\nweeks or months of observation, become\\nskilled in judging. Thus he is protected\\nfrom those designing persons who would\\nlike to buy his stock tor one-fourth its\\nvalue, because he knows what it is\\nworth. In like manner he is protected\\nfrom purchasing stock at twice or three\\ntimes its value. Here is a money gain\\nright at the start. By the system ot\\ncomparison he would have no record\\nwhatever except the impression upon his\\nmind made at some exhibition which\\nwould become uncertain and indennite\\nwithin a very brief period, tor no human\\nbeing has a perfect memory.\\nHONORABLE APPLICATION OF THE\\nSCORE CARD SYSTEM OF JUDG\u00c2\u00ac\\nING.\\nNothing can do as great injury to the\\nBelgian hare industry as fraud practised\\neither by presumptuous or by legiti\u00c2\u00ac\\nmately authorized scorers. Frauds in\\nany or the channels of commerce wreck\\ninstitutions. Confidence in a system ot\\njudging the hare is of as great import\u00c2\u00ac\\nance to the Belgian hare industry as is\\nconfidence in the stability of a bank\\nto the success of its stockholders. Ficti\u00c2\u00ac\\ntious score cards, either overrating or\\nunderating the value of a specimen will\\ndestroy confidence in perhaps hundreds\\nof people who are more or less interested\\nand as many more who might become in\u00c2\u00ac\\nterested. A few instances of this kind\\nscattered throughout the country will\\ndo almost irreparable injury to the in\u00c2\u00ac\\ndustry and turn many an intelligent\\npossible recruit from entering the ranks\\nof the fancy.\\nIn the judging of hares there is un\u00c2\u00ac\\nquestionably, for quite a time to come,\\nan almost unlimited room for imposi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions by those who are unprincipled and\\ncare nothing for the good of vhe fancy\\nbut live in the present and for what\\nmoney they can make out of it regard\u00c2\u00ac\\nless of injury done to others. Such a", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "person is just as likely to score a 91\\npoint hare at 95 points, or even 06. And\\na trifle more money for his trouble would\\ndoubtless make him see the animal even\\nhigher in the scale of perfection and\\nprompt him to make a valuation of 97\\nor even g8 points, sign his name and\\nlet her go. But in this as in other\\nlines, the survival of the fittest will\\nultimately obtain, but of course, this\\nwill never result until great numbers\\nof people have been more or less injured\\nin a financial way.\\nThe disposition of people to take for\\ngranted the say-so of Tom, Dick or\\nHarry, the long-haired, Indian-fakir\\ndoctor, offers to the unprincipled, pre\u00c2\u00ac\\nsumptuous character of the same ilk\\na wide and profitable field for his ma-\\nf chinations in the hare industry. When\\npeople awaken to the fact that stand\u00c2\u00ac\\nard authorities in the judging of hares,\\nor those who are truly expert and who\\nexcel in this capacity, are the proper\\npersons upon whose judgment they\\nshould rely then will humbuggery, to a\\ngreat extent, meet its death and the up\u00c2\u00ac\\nbuilding of the industry make rapid\\nstrides and become a source of great\\npleasure and great profit as well. A\\nreligious application of the score card\\nsystem of judging is an imperative\\nnecessity and the man or woman who\\nwill sacrifice the sacredness of this\\nmethod of judging should be exposed\\nand condemned, and, in fact, placed on a\\npar with the criminal who obtains\\nmoney by false pretense.\\nReduced fac-simile of the Crystal Palace Challenge Cup won by Fashoda at the great\\nPet Stock Exhibition in London, England, November 1st, 1899.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "The BONANZA\\nRABBITRY\\n930 GRAND VIEW AVE.\\nLOS ANGELES, CAL.\\nSOME ACCOUNTS OF ITS\\nFOUNDING AND PROGRESS;\\nITS METHODS OF MANAGE\u00c2\u00ac\\nMENT; ITS UNSURPASSED\\nIMPORTED AND NATIVE-\\nBRED BELGIAN HARES; ITS\\nEXPOSITION RECORD AND\\nINDUCEMENTS TO BUYERS\\nTIMES JOB PRINT\\nPRESENTED BY\\nDR. B. C. PLATT AND ELMER L. PLATT\\nFOUNDERS AND PROPRIETORS\\nCopyright by Dr. B. C. Platt, 1900.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "FASHODA, CHAMPION OF THE WORLD.\\nImported by,Bonanza Rabbitry, Dec. 3rd, 1899. Sired by Champion Edinboro; dam by Fairy King. Winner of every prize before\\nhim on the exhibition circuit of England, Season of 1899, including the great Crystal Palace Cup. Also winner of International\\nChampionship, prize, $100.00, February 1900, Los Angeles, California. Score 95% at 13% months of age, and four months after\\nentering the stud.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "The Bonanza Rabbitry\\nThis booklet assumes that the reader knows something of the Belgian Hare,\\nthe graceful little animal now attracting the attention of wideawake people\\nthroughout the United States. It is not intended as a treatise upon the breed\u00c2\u00ac\\ning, care and management of the Belgian, subjects fully discussed in the man\u00c2\u00ac\\nual issued by the Bonanza Rabbitry, but rather as a guide in the selection of\\nthe best stock procurable in the United States. That means the best stock\\nin the world, for the history of other varieties of imported live stock is being re\u00c2\u00ac\\npeated with the hare in respect to the fact that the skill and care of Amer\u00c2\u00ac\\nicans, aided by favorable climatic conditions, are developing animals of a finer\\ntype than the originals brought from older countries abroad.\\nDESCRIPTION AND MERITS.\\nThe Belgian\u00e2\u0080\u0099s beauty, grace and gentleness make him attractive as a pet, and\\nhe is an ideal animal for the fancier, who seeks to breed individuals of the\\nhighest excellence, for he richly rewards any degree of care and study. But his\\nmost permanent merit will undoubtedly be found in the quantity of delicious\\nmeat which he furnishes at a less cost than poultry or any similar table delicacy.\\nHis flesh isi wonderfully sweet, juicy and delicate in flavor. It is an ideal\\nfood for invalids, for it is always tender, and is entirely free from grease\\nor inferior fats, and causes no inflammation whatever. The broth may be taken\\nwith great benefit by patients recovering from any kind of\\nfever. At three months of age the hare will dress from three\\nto four pounds, and he will continue to take on a pound\\na month up to his sixth or seventh month. At full growth he weighs\\nten or twelve pounds. The thoroughbreds are far more delicious in flavor than\\nthe various crossings with inferior breeds which are palmed off on some pur\u00c2\u00ac\\nchasers as true Belgians.\\nThe prevailing color of the thoroughbred Belgian is a reddish tan, known as\\na \u00e2\u0080\u009cRufus red.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This is not solid, but shows clearest on the shoulders and top\\nof the neck. The haunches are of a grayish-brown shade. Each hair, on\\nportions of the animal, is tipped with black, called \u00e2\u0080\u009cticking.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This ticking\\ngives a peculiarly rich appearance to the best fur. The head is graceful and\\ncarried well up. The eyes are prominent. The ears should be about five in\u00c2\u00ac\\nches long, firmly carried. An edging of black, called lacing, extends over the", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "4\\ntips of the ears and well down the edges. The fore feet and legs are small.\\nThe hind legs are larger and very powerful. In build the best Belgians are\\nlong, slim and racy, narrow in front. The best meat is in the hind quarters,\\nthe hams and loins and along the sides.\\nDEMAND AND SUPPLY.\\nAt present the demand for thoroughbred Belgians far exceeds the supply. It\\ncomes from two classes, families and others who desire to breed only a few\\nhares, and from dealers who propose to go into the business on a large scale,\\nto supply restaurants, hotels, or factories for canning the meat. The Belgian\\nadvertises itself wherever known. The flesh commands from twenty-five to\\nthirty-five cents per pound dressed. The pelts are worth from twenty-five cents\\nto $2.50 each, and are made into robes, rugs, capes, caps, muffs, coat linings\\nand trimmings for gloves, etc.\\nPrices vary with circumstances, from a few dollars for cheap, inferior stock,\\nfit only for meat and that not the best, to several hundred dollars for high\u00c2\u00ac\\nbred, fancy animals. Five hundred dollars each, and even more, has been paid\\nfor imported specimens. From fifteen to fifty dollars each for good animals\\nof breeding age is a common price and choice specimens from which first-class\\nexhibition types may be bred command many times the bet\u00c2\u00ac\\nter price. The buyer should decide upon what phase of this\\nindustry he desires to embark, whether for market purpose, or for the\\npossession of high-bred animals from which to breed stock to sell to found\\nbreeding herds, and should then consult a reputable dealer who will quote\\nprices in accordance with reasonable values.\\nCARE AND MANAGEMENT.\\nThe Belgian brings double profits with half the labor and cost, as compared\\nwith poultry. The Belgian is never troubled with vermin, and with few dis\u00c2\u00ac\\neases except colds. Hardy, carefully bred stock is almost uniformly healthy.\\nA piece of land half the size of an ordinary city lot is enough for a good\\nrabbitry. A still smaller space will do for few pens to produce hares for the\\nhome table. But they can be grown by the wholesale if desired. One man\\ncan care for one thousand breeding does if they are confined in paddocks of an\\neighth of an acre each, with twenty-five does and one buck to each pad-\\ndock.\\nThe hare is a dainty feeder, and will eat no coarse or unwholesome food.\\nYet it is very easily fed. It thrives on good clover hay, alfalfa, sugar beets\\ncarrots, rutabagas, oats, corn, wheat or barley. Straw and clean trimmings\\nfrom deciduous fruit trees, which the hare will strip of buds and bark. Some", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "5\\ncoarse straw should be supplied at all times. The above are their standard\\nfoods, but they will eat many other grains, grasses, cereals, vegetables and some\\nfruits.\\nINCREASE AND PROFIT.\\nThe hare is wonderfully prolific. Each doe will bear a litter, averaging\\neight, every two months, and the mother and all the young will be healthy and\\nvigorous. They would produce litters even more frequently if permitted. A\\ncarefully computed table, published in our manual, shows that the progeny of a\\nsingle pair of Belgians, if permitted to increase and multiply without inter\u00c2\u00ac\\nference, would amount in two years to 16,386. If the increase were carried on\\nto five years it would reach the enormous total of 4,305,181,681. The young\\nof a single doe, in one year, will by their growth through the year, amount to\\nthe aggregate of 300 pounds of the finest meat grown anywhere. By holding\\nall does she produces, till they have one to three litters, the pounds of meat\\nwill exceed\\n1500\\nwithin\\none\\nyear.\\nThis at 20 cents\\nper\\npounds will\\nbe\\nworth\\n$300.00 a\\nvalue greatly in excess\\nof\\nthe increase\\nof\\na cow\\nor\\nany\\nother domesticated animal.\\nThis\\nvalue does not include the returns from the pelts which may amount to\\nas much more. An outlay of money sufficient to enable a family to engage\\nin the dairy business will bring five times the returns from Belgian hares with\\nfar less disagreeable labor. There is no other business of supplying the\\nstaples for human existence at present before the public in which there is\\nso iittle competition or such sure return upon the investment. There is none\\nso well adapted to so many classes of people, families, elderly people, women\\nwho wish or are compelled to live by their own labor, professional men who\\nhave a little leisure, teachers, ranchersand almost everybody else.\\nTHE BONANZA RABBITRY.\\nJit\\nThe Bonanza Rabbitry, at 930 Grand View Ave., was founded in 1895, as a\\nresult of a gift of a pair of rabbits to an eight-year-old boy, Elmer, the son\\nof Dr. B. C. Platt. From this insignificant commencement has grown a busi\u00c2\u00ac\\nness returning an income of several thousand dollars a year and now upon a basis\\nlikely to double or treble these returns in the coming year.\\nFrom boyhood Dr. Platt had been associated with scientific and practical\\nbreeders of high types of horses, cattle and smaller livestock,\\nand had himself become a recognized authority upon stock rais\u00c2\u00ac\\ning. He saw the possibilities of the Belgian as the foun\u00c2\u00ac\\ndation of a profitable industry as soon as this now well-known little\\ncreature began to be understood in America. He gradually added other speci-", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6\\nmens to the original pair given to his son, as a basis for observation and ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nperiment. His first effort was to breed for table use and he found the Belgian\\nto be a delicacy entirely new to him and of a very high quality, especially\\nfrom the standpoint of health and economy. The fecundity of the hare, its\\npopularity among all who tasted of the flesh and the high price readily paid\\nfor it soon convinced Dr. Platt that the Belgian was sure to prove a bonanza\\nto the America people, hence the name that he early gave to his rabbitry.\\nA year devoted to experiments confirmed this belief and led up to the found\u00c2\u00ac\\ning of the first extensive rabbitry in the West. The best stock obtainable on\\nthe continent was at once procured as a foundation. Various new strains were\\nadded from time to time, improving the quality and evolving the latest types.\\nAired by the favorable climatic conditions of Southern California, Dr. Platt\\ndevoted two more years to successful efforts in breeding the earliest matured\\nspecimens of the Belgian, in the shortest possible time, at the least possible\\nexpense. The individuals thus secured surpassed every thing then known here\\nin size, fecundity, vigor and beauty. This period brought the development of the\\nBonanza Rabbitry up to the fall of 1898.\\nBIRTH OF THE NEW INDUSTRY.\\nAt this time the breeding capacity of the Bonanza Rabbitry had been in\u00c2\u00ac\\ncreased to an annual output of over three thousand. The demands for Bel\u00c2\u00ac\\ngians exceed even this large supply in the ratio of ten to one. The methods\\nof breeding and management have been thus proved so far superior to any\\nothers, Dr. Platt determined to give them to the world and published an illus\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrated treatise to which he gave as a title the name of his rabbitry. This\\nbook, although not of huge proportions, is still the most elaborate ever put\\nforth devoted exclusively to the Belgian. It fully sets forth the writer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\noriginal ideas, such as the ground-floor, open-air system of pens, far superior\\nto the old-fashioned, narrow, confined box hutches arranged in tiers one above\\nthe other. It also gives full directions on all matters of breeding, rearing,\\nfeeding, marketing and management in general, answering every question for\\nthe benefit of the amateur and directing veteran fanciers in the paths of prog\u00c2\u00ac\\nress.\\nCertain advertisements of unique design illustrated by pictures of beautiful\\nspecimens, attracted far wider attention than had been anticipated, being copied\\nfree of charge by several important Eastern publications. This instance alone\\nindicated the readiness with which the American people grasp at a clear pre\u00c2\u00ac\\nsentation of a practical and taking theme. These advertisements brought large", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CHERUB at 8 months of age. Bred at Bonanza Rabbitry.\\nWeight 9 lbs., score 94X- Winner of first prize in his class and headed many groups on which we won nine special prizes at the Los Angeles\\nExposition, February, 1900. Reserved for our stud. Sire, L\u00c2\u00b0rd Britain; dam, Avalanche who won first and special prize and gold medal at\\nChicago, 1898.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nsales of the book and thousands of letters of inquiry, resulting in a general\\nawakening of interest and in sales from the Bonanza Rabbitry of stock sent\\nto all parts of the continent. This rapidly growing interest brought about the\\npresent enormous and continually increasing demand for choice specimens to\\nestablish breeding herds. This book has always sold at one dollar per copy. It\\nis uow in its third large edition.\\nTHE BONANZA RABBITRY OF TODAY.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0jt .j*\\nThe Bonanza Rabbitry is now every day the center of a marked interest. Visit\u00c2\u00ac\\nors without exception express themselves as greatly pleased with the methods\\nand the results shown there. \u00e2\u0080\u009cThis is common sense.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cThis looks like business,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nand similar remarks of approval testify to their satisfaction. The pens afford\\nthe largest freedom possible for the hares in a state of captivity, full protection\\nfrom inclement weather and a reduction of labor to the minimum. They\\nare also constructed with the greatest economy consistent with portability and\\ndurability. All of these pens are fitted with improved devices, the inventions\\nof the proprietor, for economy of labor, saving of feed, and for supplying an\\nabundance of perfectly clean food and water at all times. These devices make\\nit possible for a twelve-year-old boy to care for three hundred head during his\\nmorning and evening hours attending school regularly. This rabbitry is kept\\nsweet and clean by the use of very simple methods and without the em\u00c2\u00ac\\nployment of artificial deodorizers. Many of the fixtures used are patented.\\nThose who have adopted these methods and have started with good stock\\nfor foundation purposes have been uniformly successful. Many of them have\\nrealized within a year profits ranging from seven dollars to sixty for every\\ndollar invested.\\nThere are about two hundred of these modern pens at this rabbitry and ad\u00c2\u00ac\\nditions are constantly being made. To accommodate breeding does and their\\nprogeny three pens should be allowed for each breeding doe. The intention\\nis finally to have five hundred breeding does in this rabbitry. There are now\\nabout eighty. These have been gradually changed and improved until they now\\nrepresent sixteen distinct strains of the very best blood in the world. The\\ngreat strength of this rabbitry is in its does, a point in which many rabbitries\\nare inferior. Most breeders seem to think that the reputation of the bucks is all\\nsufficient. But at the Bonanza Rabbitry equal attention is paid to the se\u00c2\u00ac\\nlection of the does. In fact the proprietor believes that the doe is equally im\u00c2\u00ac\\nportant with the buck for the production of the best types.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "9\\nFAIRY QUEEN, imported by Bonanza Rabbitry, Dec. 3rd, 1899.\\nAt six months of age; weight 7^ibs., score 9424. Sire, Champion Priory Prince; dam, by Red King,\\nheby Champion Unicorn. Reserved as a breeder.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "io\\nSCIENTIFIC BREEDING.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2j*\\nScience and intelligence produce results from the Belgian just as they have\\nproduced our noble Jersey and cur spirited and magnificent families of blooded\\nhorses, from the beautifully colored, symmetrical and graceful Arabian, through\\nthe kings of the English turf to the Kentucky thoroughbreds and our famous\\nAmerican harness horses. The first principle of scientific breeding, as applied\\nto the Belgian, lies in an ability to select and mate individuals for producing\\ndefinite results in higher types approaching the ideal. This ability is a rare\\naccomplishment. Hence the breeding of improved types is, for the few who can\\nbring it about, a permanent and profitable industry. There is a short cut for\\nestablishing points of excellence, as required by the standard of excellence,\\nnamely, inbreeding. Many fanciers adopt this means with a certain degree of\\ntemporary benefit in money returns. But in the end this process is disastrous\\nand often leads to final abandonment of the business. Breeding closely related\\nhares may establish points of color or other points desired but also brings\\nweak constitutions and a tendency to contract colds, which is the greatest ob\u00c2\u00ac\\nstacle to success in this industry.\\nOn the other hand, outcrossing, judiciously employed, lends additional vi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntality to the progeny. Therefore, although the points sought for may not be\\nsecured so quickly as by inbreeding, nevertheless there is no comparison as to\\nfinal results. For hares without vigor are sources of neither pleasure nor profit.\\nThere are rabbitries in this section which illustrate these contrasts. Some of\\nthese are supplied with all sorts of appliances for prolonging life, including a\\nnursery and a drug department. There is nothing of this sort at the Bonanza\\nRabbitry. On the contrary there is every evidence of health, thrift and vigor\\nin the herd. Dr. Platt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s theories of breeding and management as set forth in\\nhis book, are all rational, natural and thoroughly up to date. The specimens pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nduced here are acknowledged by all to be marvels of beauty.\\nTHE BONANZA S RECENT IMPORTATIONS.\\nRecently many importations of hares have been brought from England, but\\nthere has been great difficulty in securing the very finest specimens. English\\nbreeders have justly criticised the American for wanting the best but being\\nunwilling to pay the very high prices demanded for them. England has been\\nsupplying not only America, but France, Germany, Austria and other countries.\\nConsequently English breeders have been able to place astounding prices upon", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "BEAUTY NOBLE at 7 months of age. Bred at Bonanza Rabbitry.\\nWeight 8 lbs., score 95Sire, Lord Britain; dam. Bonanza Beauty. Reserved for our stud.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nthe choicest products of their herds. In addition to the high prices there have\\nbeen great difficulties and much risk in bringing the hares some seven thousand\\nmiles over land and sea. It has been a common thing for importers to lose at\\nleast two-fifths of each importation from weaknesses resulting from the close\\nconfinement of the journey or from colds contracted during the voyage.\\nDr. Platt determined not only to secure the very best specimens which\\nmoney would buy, but also to bring them to Los Angeles in good condition.\\nProlonged negotiations and liberal payments secured the animals desired and\\nthoughtfulness and ingenuity brought them here in the pink of condition. Spe\u00c2\u00ac\\ncially devised crates were made and sent to England to receive the hares. These\\nwere so constructed that each hare had plenty of room for exercise, shelter from\\ndraughts, with an abundance of fresh air, clean and wholesome food. The crates\\nwere also self-cleaning. Each hare had room to stand erect, to keep up his\\nmuscular power and to stretch himself at will. When they arrived in Los\\nAngeles they were alert and hearty as a bird in the air and fit to go at once\\nupon the exhibition table.\\nThis importation consisted of two does and four bucks, all beautiful speci\u00c2\u00ac\\nmens. The does are Fairy Queen and Countess of Warwick. The bucks still\\nin our possession are Champion Fashoda and Blooming Heather. A third buck,\\nAmerican Boy, was sold, and we were so unfortunate as to lose the fourth,\\nBrilliant, by illness, a few weeks after his arrival. All except Brilliant and\\nFashoda were in the six-months class when imported. All were first choice\\nfrom twenty litters, resulting from the twenty best matings ever made in\\nEngland.\\nBrilliant was a grand young buck, eleven months old when imported. We\\nmay say here that the importation arrived at our rabbitry December 3, 1899.\\nBrilliant was believed to be destined to capture the highest prizes in the ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nhibition circles of England, until the the dark horse, Champion Fashoda, ap\u00c2\u00ac\\npeared on the scene unexpectedly and was found to be superior to anything ever\\nproduced. These hares were the best that England could produce and English\\nbreeders disliked to see the shipment leave their shores knowing that it was\\nleaving their own herds lacking in their strongest breeding specimens.\\nWe valued Brilliant very highly and regretted his loss keenly. Although\\napparently a very strong and vigorous animal, full of vim and vitality, he must\\nhave had, at some period early in his life, a serious illness, and the radical\\nchange of climate and surroundings from England to Southern California\\nbrought on another attack from which he died. This is a risk which the enter\u00c2\u00ac\\nprising importer cannot avoid, although it adds immeasurably to the hazard\\ninvolved. We are partly consoled for the loss of Brilliant by the fact that we\\nhad several does bred to him and have therefore secured a number of his pro\u00c2\u00ac\\ngeny, which now have an especial value since they cannot be duplicated.\\nWe shall fully describe Fairy Queen, the Countess of Warwick, Fashoda and\\nBlooming Heather in the following pages, in connection with other members\\nof our unequalled breeding herd. All these hares stand very strong on their", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "BONANZA KING at 10 months of age.\\nThe longest bodied buck seen oil the continent. Sire, Champion Yukon; Dam, Princess Second. We have many of his\\ndaughters reserved as breeders.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nfront toes, showing strength of lirnL and no weakness. All have the same\\nbeautiful tint in color, particularly noticeable in their hind legs and feet, a rich\\nrufus red from the roots of their black toe nails to the hock joint, and entirely\\naround the leg.\\nOUR EXHIBITION RECORD.\\nDr. B. C. Platt, the manager of the Bonanza Rabbitry was\\nalso the general manager of the American Breeders of Belgian\\nHares, an incorporation consisting of leading breeders of Los\\nAngeles and neighboring cities. This corporation was organized\\nto advance the interest of the Belgian Hare industry in every way, com\u00c2\u00ac\\nmercial and scientific. Its most noteworthy achievement up to the present\\ntime was the organization and successful carrying out of a Fair, Mart and\\nFeast, held at Los Angeles, February 8, 9 and 10, 1900. This was the great\u00c2\u00ac\\nest show devoted exclusively to Belgians ever held.\\nThere were eighty classes of entries and over 1100 Belgians in competition.\\nOf these, 360 passed through the judge\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hands, the judging and scoring oc\u00c2\u00ac\\ncupying nearly three days. During the three days of this exposition it was\\nvisited by nearly fifteen thousand people. The prizes were by far the largest\\never offered. The first prizes in each class (two, one for the best buck and\\none for the best doe) ranged from $15 to $100, the latter being offered for the\\ninternational championship. Besides the cash prizes there were many valuable\\nspecial prizes.\\nThe judging at this exhibition was performed under the constant and direct\\nsupervision of a committee of twelve leading citizens of Los Angeles, who had\\nit absolutely under their control. The official judge was Mr. P. E. Crabtree,\\nof Denver, the best authority in America on Belgian Hares, the man whose\\ndecision carries greater weight than that of any other, because of his acknowl\u00c2\u00ac\\nedged skill, experience and fairness. To make the competition absolutely se\u00c2\u00ac\\ncure from even a suspicion of unfairness the committee permitted no exhibitor\\nto converse with Mr. Crabtree until after the competition was over and the\\nprizes were awarded. A system was adopted which brought each animal, in\\nturn, into the hands of the judge without any knowledge whatever, on his\\npart, as to its ownership.\\nAt this exhibition and under these rigid conditions we secured the following\\nlong list of prizes:\\nALL-CASH PRIZES.\\nInternational Championship, open to the world.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Purse of $100.00, won by our\\nfamous buck, Fashoda.\\nIn classified Foreign-bred Stock\u00e2\u0080\u0094Buck six months and under eight, we won", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\nRUBY PRINCE at 5 months of age.\\nWeight 7J4 lbs., score 95*4. Sire, imported Rochdale, winner of the great Rochdale prize in\\nEngland in 1898; dam, Lady Alden, daughter of imported Lord Banbury and out of imported\\nMelba, a doe whose product brought to her owner in the year of 1899 a sum of $1400.00. Re\u00c2\u00ac\\nserved for ou r stud.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i6\\nsecond with Blooming Heather, $10. Matured does, we won third with Fairy\\nQueen, $5.\\nIn American-bred Stock.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Eight-months buck, we won first with\\nCherub, $15; four months and under six, first with Superb, $15. In same\\nclass our doe, Molly Bawn, won third, $5. Under four months we won first\\nwith both buck and doe, $15 each. The winning buck was Crown Prince; doe,\\nNellie Bly.\\nHeavy-weight Class.\u00e2\u0080\u0094We won first doe with Jewel, weight thirteen pounds\\nand six ounces, prize, $15. This was our only entry in this class and Jewel is\\nof strictly Belgian breeding, having no admixture of Flemish blood. She is a\\nresult of special feeding, breeding and care for several generations.\\nSPECIAL PRIZES.\\nFirst.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Gold Medal and $50, for best exhibit of California-bred stock.\\nFirst for highest scoring buck of our breeding, dropped by doe owned by ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nhibitor at date of birth of specimen, 5,000 shingles valued at $12.50, won by\\nCherub with a score of 94 3-4.\\nFirst for highest scoring doe of own breeding, owned by exhibitor at date of\\nbirth of specimen, 5,000 shingles valued at $12.50, won by Sweetness with a\\nscore of 94 1-4.\\nFirst for best display by owner of stock from his own mating and rearing,\\nClimax Solar water heater, valued at $30.\\nFirst for best display of American-bred stock, buggy robe, valued at $5.\\nFirst for best display of California-bred stock, Atlas of the World, valued\\nat $8.\\nFirst for best display of Southern California-bred stock, a Stoddard barrel\\nchurn, valued at $10.\\nFirst for best pair of hares bred in Southern California, a suit of clothes,\\nwon by Cherub and Sweetness.\\nFirst for best exhibit for boy under 18 years of age, Webster\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Unabridged Dic\u00c2\u00ac\\ntionary, $10.00.\\nFirst for exhibitor receiving the highest grand total of scores on specimens\\nof Standard-bred Belgians of his own breeding, half ton of Paradise Valley\\noats, valued at $17.50.\\nFirst for exhibitor having the most attractive booth.\\nFirst for the best method of displaying exhibition stock.\\nThis makes a grand total of six firsts, one second, two thirds and twelve\\nspecials, twenty-one in all. We received $245 in cash, and special prizes worth\\n$128, a total of $373.\\nThis competition is the only one, so far, at which we have had an opportunity\\nto display our herd, but we shall be thoroughly prepared for any future com\u00c2\u00ac\\npetition in this line. Our record at this show stands absolutely unequaled by", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\nPRIMROSE AND SWEETNESS. Property of Bonanza Rabbitry.\\nLitter sisters at 9 months. Sired by imported Lord Britain; dam, Bonanza Beauty. Scores 94% and 94%; weight 10 lbs. each.\\nBred at Bonanza Rabbitry and reserved as breeders. A little sister of these does. Lady Vic, won the American Championship\\nPrize, $50, at the great Los Angeles Exposition, Mart and Feast, Feb. 1900. Lady Vic weighs 11 lbs. Another litter sister,\\nBritain Maid, weighs 11% lbs., and while nursing a litter, scored 94 and was sold for $340.00.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "i8\\nbreeder or dealer in any country. We bred all of the animals that we ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nhibited except three, which we imported.\\nThe English bred stock at this show received a punishment of from one\\npoint to one and a half points for lack of weight. English breeders have con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntended that it is impossible to get the fine lines demanded in the standard\\nof excellence in an animal weighing eight pounds or over. Champion Fashoda\\nis an exception to this rule, reaching nearly nine pounds in weight. English\\nbreeders use condiments in the food of their hares, in an effort to give them\\nappetite, color and vigor. We never use anything of the sort as we believe\\nthat its ultimate result is a deterioration. We believe that a large part of\\nthe loss in imported animals is due to the change in the manner of feeding\\nas well as to the sudden change in climate and to the wear and tear of the\\nlong journey across the Atlantic and a part or all of the American continent\\nto the rabbitries of their new owners. We have sent stock of our own breed\u00c2\u00ac\\ning and reared in ground floor, open air pens into all the different climates in\\nthe United States with no complaint whatever of sickness or loss of life.\\nThe winner of the American-bred championship doe weighed eleven pounds\\nand was bred by the Bonanza Rabbitry. Two little sisters of this winner weighed\\nrespectively nine and nine and three-fourths pounds, and were a tie with her\\nin the competition. Another sister, which was not on exhibition, on account\\nof an injury to a hock joint, has a score of 943-4 and weighs 11 1-4 pounds.\\nThese three does we still have. Our hares went into this competition with\u00c2\u00ac\\nout any special fitting, or attention to preparation for exhibition, in such points\\nas grooming, putting a luster on the coat, or gaunting by restricting bulky\\nfoods.\\nUntil a very recent period no such hares as these were brought to America\\nbut all the hares to be found in California were lacking in style, shape, sym\u00c2\u00ac\\nmetry, color and alertness. Inferior animals came from England for a period\\nof seven years and it was no wonder that Americans saw nothing attractive\\nabout them except the fact that they were fairly good eating. The descendants\\nof these are now abundant throughout the land and are no more to be\\ncompared with the later and higher type than a bulky draft horse is to be\\ncompared with a Kentucky thoroughbred, or a mongrel cur with a greyhound.\\nBut these distinctions are difficult to make, except when one can see the higher\\nand the poorer types side by side.\\nWe now have eighty breeding hares with absolutely red hind feet, painted\\nby the hand of nature, not, as in the case of some bare-faced frauds of which\\nwe have recently heard, by the hand of man. The hind foot of the hare in\u00c2\u00ac\\ncludes all that portion of the leg which rests upon the ground, in his peculiar\\ngait, and extends from the toes to the hock joint. It is about five inches long.\\nThe ears in the new type are a beautiful golden tan. The body color must\\ncontain an abundance of fiery red, with plentiful ticking, and a rose-gold un\u00c2\u00ac\\nder color on the body, back and sides, tapering off on the sides into a Gold", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "BLOOMING HEATHER, imported by Bonanza Rabbitry, December 3rd, 1899.\\nt 8 months of age. Weight lbs., score 94 at 6 months of age. Half-brother to our great Champion Fashoda; sire, Champion Edinboro;\\nam, by Champion Malton Mystery. Reserved for our stud.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nof Ophir rose-tint which in turn, mingles with the snowy white of the belly.\\nThe color under the jaws should be a cream.\\nAnother feature of the hares raised in open-air, ground-flour pens is that their\\nabsolute freedom and exposure to light produces a beautiful, large, round eye\\nwith a brilliancy of expression truly admirable. Hares raised in a barn or un\u00c2\u00ac\\nder cover are certainly lacking in brilliancy of the eye. And this means a\\nlack of snap and vigor and of that vitality which is really the foundation of\\nhealth. In open competition with all the best specimens obtainable, and with\\nthose housed and fed on color food, etc., etc. We have shown that hares are not\\nimproved in color by being deprived of light and sunshine.\\nWe lay no claim to having the largest establishment in the world, but we are\\nthe largest dealers in animals of our own breeding in this or any other country.\\nWe are strictly breeders, not hucksters or speculators in hares bred by other\\npeople. We breed what we sell and sell only what we breed. Buyers run no\\nrisk in the quality of the ancestry in what we sell, no risk of the dye wash\u00c2\u00ac\\ning off, exposing white feet the first time the hares get wet. Ours was the\\nlargest exhibit at the Los Angeles show and comprised one hundred and thirty-\\nthree head. That was less than one-third of what we could have shown if\\nour manager had not also been the general manager of the corporation con\u00c2\u00ac\\nducting the show and overwhelmed with his duties in that connection. All of\\nthese animals, with three exceptions, were bred by ourselves and won more and\\nhigher prizes than were ever before acquired by any one breeder or exhibitor\\nin this class of live stock and made a higher aggregate score. We were defeated\\nin first prizes in only two classes in which we competed and in one of these we\\nwon second, in the other third. In each class the winners above us were hares of\\nour breeding which we had previously sold. This was true of the animal\\nwhich took the championship prize of fifty dollars for American-bred doe,\\nnamed Lady Vic. Her litter sister Britain Maid, sold during the exposition\\nfor 340 The three animals in our exhibit not bred by us were imported by\\nus because they were able to win over all comers in their own homes. We looked\\nfor these for thirteen months until we secured them and for sixteen months\\nuntil we received them at our rabbitry. So that they were really bred and\\nbom while we were looking for them.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "PRIZE WINNER S CERTIFICATE.\\nrJl! P^sent herewith a reduced fac-simile~oToi^f the twent\u00e2\u0080\u0099y^nT^rtifi-\\nthis exposition 116 B nanZa Rabbitr y received accompanying the prizes taken at", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nINSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION IN SCORING.\\nA novel and valuable feature of this exposition was an institute, or school\\nof instruction in scoring and judging hares, over which the official judge, Mr.\\nP. E. Crabtree, presided. There were fifteen members in this class who re\u00c2\u00ac\\nceived thorough training in the art. As a result they have acquired a most\\nvaluable expert knowledge of the way to determine both the merits and the\\ndefects of their own Belgians as well as of any others that may be submitted\\nto them for scoring. This course of instruction was based upon the methods\\nemployed by the leading authorities in this country, using the score card in\u00c2\u00ac\\nvented by Mr. Crabtree, the only means of securing an exact and permanent\\nrecord of the rating and value of a Belgian. Our manager, Dr. B. C. Platt,\\nwas an enthusiastic member of this class and finds the experience and knowl\u00c2\u00ac\\nedge thus acquired invaluable in his work. Following is a reduced fac-simile\\nof the diploma awarded to him by the officers of the incorporation in connec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion with this feature of the exposition. It will be seen that Dr. Platt in the\\nblind test at scoring tied the record made by Judge Crabtree, the instructor\\nof the class.\\nV* V*\\nAt the convention of the National Association of Belgian Hare Judges, re\u00c2\u00ac\\ncently held in Los Angeles, Califofnia, our Dr. B. C. Platt was elected presi-\\nent.\\nDr. Platt will receive hares for scoring and furnish score cards. Fee, $i for\\neach specimen. Scientific advice on mating pairs, fee, $2 per pair. This advice\\nis furnished in writing and constitutes a chart, delineating the defects as well\\nas the desirable qualities of the various sections of the specimens under con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsideration.\\nArrangements for the judging of exhibitions, advice on conducting the same,\\nwith advice and instruction as to managing rabbitries and also for scoring\\nherds, may be made by correspondence.\\nAs to our financial and business standing, we refer by permission to the Citi\u00c2\u00ac\\nzens\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Bank of Los Angeles, Cal.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "23\\nCERTIFICATE IN SCORING AWARDED TO B. C. PLATT.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "OUR HERD OF HIGH-CLASS BREEDERS.\\nFollowing is a description of some of the fine animals from which we are\\nnow breeding:\\nCHAMPION FASHODA heads our herd and is acknowledged to be the nearest\\napproach to the ideal in existence.\\nFashoda is a phenomenon, a happy product of scientific mating producing the\\nfortunate results that sometimes follow the best directed efforts\\nin the breeding of live-stock. A great race horse, for instance, may beget\\nscores of youngsters that will trot in the 2:20 class, but only one in a lifetime\\nwith the combined qualities of body and brain, the speed, the endurance, the\\nintelligence and the pluck, to lower a world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s record. So Fashoda is the climax\\nin a long line of great ancestors and a multitude of worthy descendants.\\nFashoda is the only living buck approaching perfection in style, symmetry\\nand color and also of standard weight. In fact, he is nearly a pound over the\\nstandard. Before him the best breeders of England\u00e2\u0080\u0094and that means of the world\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094found it impossible to unite the fine lines desired in the ideal with the full\\nsize and weight demanded by the standard of excellence. As to his form and\\nsymmetry we can only refer the reader to the excellent reproduction of a\\nphotograph which we give as a frontispiece to this booklet and to an inspec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of Fashoda\u00e2\u0080\u0099s score card which we also present, at the close of this de\u00c2\u00ac\\nscription, for symmetry and form in a hare is something impossible of accurate\\ndescription by words alone. We can only repeat that, in these respects as in\\nall others, he is the very best that the world has produced.\\nWhen we come to the element of color we find that Fashoda possesses a rich,\\nrose-gold, under-color, together with beautiful, broadly-defined and wavy tick\u00c2\u00ac\\ning distributed to a nicety, giving to his coat a luster and depth of color equal\\nto mahogany tint, extending from head to tail, from vertebrae all but to hocks,\\nand nearly full depth of sides. The lacing of his ears could scarcely be better,\\nand from the lacing, over the outer surface of the ears, extends the rare and\\nbeautiful tint best described as a golden tan. A breadth of this also shades\\nthe sparkling ticking of the sides into the snowy white of his belly, and un\u00c2\u00ac\\nder his jaws, blends with the brilliant flush of the rufus-red on his broad,\\nsplendidly arched breast. All of his feet are of the indefinable coloring now\\nthe object of every fancier\u00e2\u0080\u0099s efforts and the most difficult element to attain\\nin the whole standard of perfection. This wonderful shade is really a new\\nthing in nature. It resembles a mahogany but has a brighter luster. It is like\\na wine color but not so deep a shade. It might be called maroon but is a\\nlittle darker. Define it as you may it gives a finish to the whole effect as yet\\nrarely seen upon Belgians.\\nFashoda has strikingly large and brilliant eyes of exactly the correct shade\\nof hazel, beaming with intelligence, spirit and docility. His bearing is alert", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nBONANZA BEAUTY, born August, 1898.\\nSired by imported Champion Yukon; dam, Princess (Crabtree\u00e2\u0080\u0099s). This doe has produced within a period of\\none year stock that has sold, or could have been sold, for a valuation of S3400.00. She and a Utter sister,\\nAvalanche, reserved for breeders.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nand strong. He assumes, of his own accord, poses that are models of grace, and\\nthe immediate effect, upon every one who sees him, is that of a beautiful wild\\ncreature reduced to a congenial captivity where all may admire him.\\nWe may summarize this description of Fashoda by quoting from some of\\nthose who saw and knew him before he came into our possession. He cap\u00c2\u00ac\\ntured twelve first prizes on the exhibition circuit of England in 1899, also\\nseven specials, four medals and four challenge cups, including the\\nCrystal Palace cup, valued at $250, a trophy offered by the largest pet-stock\\nassociation in the world, which holds an exhibition in London every year. An\\nEnglish authority says:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cHis feet and legs are enough to turn the eyes of a breeder green with envy,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nand again, \u00e2\u0080\u009cAn absolutely correct style and front.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Another, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe best ever\\nseen.\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Still others say, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWith age he gets more beautiful,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and \u00e2\u0080\u009cWith his\\nnew coat in full bloom he will be the ideal.\u00e2\u0080\u009d All say, \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe wins easily in\\nany company,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe is the popular winner,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and again, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe crack Belgian\\nof the period.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Popular sires produce popular young, who sell at popular\\nprices, and are always sought after by progressive breeders.\\nAn old gentleman of refinement and culture, after watching our hares and es\u00c2\u00ac\\npecially Fashoda, the other day, for nearly an hour, remarked: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThis is a treat\\nequal to looking at beautiful women. The more you look at them the more\\nyou want to.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nFollowing is the official score awarded to Fashoda at the Los Angeles ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nposition, a card which constitutes a record the same as the record of speed\\nmade by a trotter or pacer in a race under competent authority. This is the\\nscore:", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "27\\n(iNCOBPOftATTO)\\nnr Ap-Ju HEADOUABTIRS: LOS AMiElfS, CAL, U.SJL\\nC. PLATT. Presid\\nH. C. HALFPENNY.\\nMRS. S. C. MARTIN. Seen\\nMRS. J. F BOYD. Treason\\nE. Crabtre\\nDen\\nC. E. Goods\\nMr*\\nSan Jow\\ni D. Gum\\nCard No.\\nRegister No.\\na\\nAngeles Dr. B.\\nPUu, Los Angeles. H. C. Halfpenn\\nMr- S. C. Martin. Los Angelet\\nJ F. Boyd. Los Angeles: E.M. Hi\\nOakland: J. R. Gutter?. L.L.D.. S\\nrbara: Dr L. C. Boyd. Los Angeles.\\nS. Boat. Los Angeles. E. F. Melville.\\nAngeles.\\nScon\\nJadga\\nAddres* 3lI^2A/^L\\nCl*\\nUn\\nShape i\\nColor\\nQuality\\nBody\\n4\\n4\\n4\\nAten Straj bb\\n4-\\n4\\nColor\\n20\\nSides\\n4-\\n4\\n4\\nHindquarters\\n-4-\\n4\\n4\\nJaws\\n4\\n4\\nTicking IS\\n4-\\n4\\n3 /Y\\n4\\nBely _\\n4\\n4\\nPlank and Rib\\n4-\\nTv\\n4\\n4\\nSymmetry\\n20\\nBack\\n4\\n4\\n4\\nLotus-...\\n4\\n4\\nHead.\\n-4-\\nTv\\n4\\n4\\nEars\\nLacing\\n4\\n4\\nTv\\n4\\n10\\nOtherwise _\\nS/V\\nT?\\nEyes 10\\nLegs Feet\\nFore Feet\\nTr\\n10\\nHind Feet.\\n4\\n4-\\n4\\nSize 5\\n4\\n4\\n4\\nCondition\\nFlesh\\n4\\n5\\nFor\\n4\\n4\\n4\\nNeck 6\\n4\\n4\\n_ _-\\n\u00c2\u00b0Vv\\nPerfection\\nImperfections\\n10 0\\nvA\\n(2 8\\nATtNT APPtjrD I\\nREDUCED FAC SIMILE OF OFFICIAL SCORE CARD OF N. A. of B. H. J.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nBLOOMING HEATHER is a half-brother to Champion Fashoda. His dam is by\\nthe most noted sire ever known, old Champion Malton Mystery, winner\\nof forty-one prizes, and this breeding is an instance which proves\\nthat blood will tell. We have, in Blooming Heather, in his youthful form of\\neight months, a perfection of development that is rare. This is especially\\nseen in the color of his feet. There is not a shading except the deepest of the\\nrich color already described in Fashoda. In Blooming Heather we have an ear\\na trifle short of the standard in length, but so beautifully set, so fine in\\nshape and with the folds so well defined, that he is really more valuable as\\na breeder than he would be if his ears were of full length or more, because there\\nare so many coarse-eared does in the country that the tendency is to lop and\\nto develop out of proportion.\\nAnother attractive feature of Blooming Heather is his unusually long tail,\\nwith a superabundance of fluffy white down on the under side. There is so\\nmuch of this, both in length and breadth, that it gives a finish, when carried\\nover his back and contrasted with the beautiful shades of his body, hips and\\nhaunches, that is decidedly taking. His head is more like that of a doe than\\nlike that of a buck. In alertness and spirit he is like the trained wild animals\\nthat one sees at the circus. He springs to the top of his cage with a bound and\\nis always full of life and action, buoyancy and vigor. His first litter was out\\nof Avalanche, and was a litter of ten. None of the litters that we have had\\nfrom him have been less than nine. We prize Blooming Heather as the cap\\nsheaf of our herd, Fashoda not excepted, and advance the prediction that,\\nbarring accidents, the world will hear from him and that his record will not\\nfall short of that of Fashoda.\\nBEAUTY\u00e2\u0080\u0099S NOBLE is a buck sired by Lord Britain, dam Bonanza Beauty.\\nShe by Champion Yukon out of Crabtree\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Princess, a doe now four years of age\\nand never beaten on the exhibition table. This animal is built upon lines much\\nfiner than are often seen in a buck. We fearlessly challenge any American-\\nbred buck to compete with him. His head is simply perfect. Contour and\\nstyle throughout are of the best. His brothers and sisters in three litters have\\nbeen sold or could have been sold for sums aggregating $2,250. His dam has now\\nby her side a litter of nine by Champion Fashoda that wall raise the produc\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of this doe, wdthin the period of one year, to a sum total of $3,500. Both\\nthe hind and front legs of Beauty\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Noble have all the qualities that can be\\nascribed to those of any hare.\\nRUBY PRINCE.\u00e2\u0080\u0094By Rochdale, dam, Lady Alden, she by imported Lord Ban\u00c2\u00ac\\nbury and out of Melba, imported, a doe that brought Mr. Gilman, of Denver, in\\n1899, $1,400 cash from sales. This shows, in a single sentence, that Ruby Prince\\nhas behind him the best of blood, and, in his immature form, he shows quality\\nfrom the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. His front legs and feet are\\nsimply perfect and his hind legs and feet are equally good. In the beautiful\\neffect of this buck\u00e2\u0080\u0099s body, in his present five-months\u00e2\u0080\u0099 form, we have never seen\\ncolor, ticking and rufus red coming so spontaneously. Here, indeed, we have\\ncolor to spare.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "29\\nSWEET MARIE.\\nAt 5 months. Weight 7 lbs. Score 94%. Sire, Lord Cayenne dam. Princess May.\\nOne of two sisters reserved aslbreeders.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "3\u00c2\u00b0\\nCHERUB.\u00e2\u0080\u0094A buck bred by the Bonanza Babbitry. Sire, Lord Britain, dam\\nAvalanche, a doe that won first special and medal at Chicago a year ago.\\nCherub weighs nine pounds and attains a combination of size and quality for\\nwhich the owners of the Bonanza Rabbitry have been striving for a period of\\nfour years. He was scored in competition, under rigid conditions. He was cut\\nhalf a point for lack of shape in flank, due to a lack of the better condition\\nthat could have been given to him by proper food and sufficient care. His\\nscore, under these circumstances, was g4 3-4. Cherub has plenty of style, car\u00c2\u00ac\\nries his head well up, good length of front leg and extra length of body. In\\nhis immature stage, eight months, Cherub won first prize in his class, and,\\nwith Sweetness, won a special prize, a suit of clothes valued at $15, for the\\nbest pair of hares bred by breeder or exhibitor in Southern California. He was\\nat the head of the group that won a special prize of one and a half tons of Par\u00c2\u00ac\\nadise Valley oats for the highest grand total of scores for standard-bred Bel\u00c2\u00ac\\ngians bred and owned by exhibitor. He was also at the head of the group that\\nwon a Webster\u00e2\u0080\u0099s unabridged dictionary; of another group that won an atlas\\nof the world. He also won a special prize of 5,000 shingles to the breeder ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nhibiting the buck of his own breeding making the highest score of the exposi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion. Was also at the head of the group that won the State prize for California-\\nbred stock, a medal and fifty dollars in cash. He was al\u00c2\u00ac\\nso at the head of the group that won the special prize for the\\nbest exhibit of stock bred in Southern California, also of those that won the\\nspecial prize, a fine buggy robe, for the best exhibit of hares bred in Los Angeles.\\nTaken altogether, Cherub was the phenomenal prize-winner of the exposition.\\nCROWN PRINCE is a full brother to Cherub, but three months younger. He\\nshows a style superior, if anything, to his famous brother. He has length,\\nsymmetry of bone, and fineness of head all nearer perfection, if possible, than\\nthe same qualities in Cherub. He carries the richest of golden tan, although\\nnot yet through his moult, to an extent that entitles him, all other qualities\\nconsidered, to a score of 95 points.\\nROYAL RED.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Sired by Rochdale, dam, Sunset Belle, she by Lord Banbury\\nout of Pauline Hall, both imported. The name of this buck describes him He\\nis simply red where he does not show ticking, and ticking he has in abundance.\\nIn his baby form, less than five months, he weighs six and a half pounds, a\\nweight which warrants the prediction that he will weigh nine or more at\\nmaturity. He comes fully up to the standard in shape. In the body sec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions no cut can be given him for proportions. He has a.grand head, abundance\\nof ear lacing, and good length of ear, adding a desirable finish to his other ex\u00c2\u00ac\\ncellent qualities.\\nHaving thus mentioned some of the principal bucks of our herd which we have\\nreserved for breeding purposes, we shall now describe a few of the does, which\\nare fully equal to the bucks, and together with them, make up the finest herd\\nof breeding animals of which we have any knowledge. The first of these to be\\nnamed is our imported doe FAIRY QUEEN. She was selected for us by the", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "3i\\nLADY GOLDEN.\\nAt 5 months. Weight 8 lbs. Score 94K- Sire, Golden Boy,-imported; dam Lady Primrose.\\nOne of three sisters reserved as breeders", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nbest judge of Belgians in England expressly to mate with Fashoda and Bloom\u00c2\u00ac\\ning Heather. This magnificent creature has sufficient nerve and buoyancy to\\nstand upon her front toe nails, supporting the weight of her body. All the\\nsnap and \u00e2\u0080\u009cgo\u00e2\u0080\u009d of a Kentucky thoroughbred are shown in the body action of\\nthis doe. This is well illustrated in our picture of her. Fairy Queen has tick\u00c2\u00ac\\ning in superabundance and yet the lightest of blue next to the skin. Between\\nthe points of the hair where the ticking appears and that portion next to the\\nskin\u00e2\u0080\u0094the middle length of the fur\u00e2\u0080\u0094she has the lightest of rufus red or a\\nrose-gold tint. On those portions of the neck and back where ticking is lack\u00c2\u00ac\\ning, the color is a fire-red, something that we have never seen elsewhere in\\nsuch a marvelous shade. She has the same color on her hind feet, not a white\\nhair and no smudge. Her ear lacing is nearly perfect.\\nThe COUNTESS OF WARWICK is the name of the most beautiful woman\\nin England and also of one of our imported does. To say that this doe is beau\u00c2\u00ac\\ntiful is leaving off the emphasis to which she is entitled. She has absolutely\\nperfect front feet, quality of leg, size, shape and color. Her hind legs are equal\\nin every respect and superior to those of any other doe we have ever seen from\\nacross the water. Her ears are perfect in color, although a trifle deficient in lac\u00c2\u00ac\\ning. Over her whole body she has color to spare.\\nPRIMROSE AND SWEETNESS are two does that we have photographed to\u00c2\u00ac\\ngether. These are the progeny of Lord Britain and Bonanza Beauty. They\\nare sisters but from an older litter than Beauty\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Noble. This is the finest\\npair of does ever bred in America. In fact, we challenge the world to produce\\ntheir equal. There were seven does in the litter from which these two\\ncame and four in the next litter by the same parents. The only appreciable\\ndifference in all of these animals was that of weight. When posed as seen in\\nthe picture given we see perfect front feet, in color, shape and size. Their\\nhind feet are just as good. These does weigh ten pounds each and there were\\nthree in the litter that exceeded eleven pounds each. Their heads cannot be\\nbeaten. These does\u00e2\u0080\u0099 scores are 94%, 94% and all the litter scored at from 94^ to\\n94%. One of this lot carried off the American championship at the recent\\nexposition in Los Angeles for the best American-bred doe. Bred at the Bo\u00c2\u00ac\\nnanza Rabbitry. The temptations in clean gold to part with these does have\\nbeen more numerous and greater because of the prices offered than any others\\nwe have ever known or heard of. In these we have the highest effect in color\\nand ticking it has ever been our pleasure to see in any animals, not except\u00c2\u00ac\\ning the best imported specimens. Note the fact that in these does we have high\u00c2\u00ac\\nest quality combined with weight, two pounds over standard requirements.\\nPEACH BLOSSOM is a doe bred from Lord Cayenne and Lady May. In\\nher five-months\u00e2\u0080\u0099-old form she has wonderful style, quality and size. As re\u00c2\u00ac\\ngards color and form of her feet and legs, she is practically perfect, yet has\\nfour months\u00e2\u0080\u0099 time for improvement before she would ordinarily be at her best.\\nThere are four sisters in this litter and when you have seen one you have\\nseen them all.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nCROWN PRINCE, at 7 months of age.\\nWeight 8 lbs., score 95. Full brother to Cherub but from a later litter. Bred at Bonanza Rabbitrj-and re\u00c2\u00ac\\nserved for our stud.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nLADY GOLDEN.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Sired by Golden Boy, dam Lady Primrose. She\\nhas two sister that are all as rich as gold is. That is the most exact state\u00c2\u00ac\\nment we can make. They are all phenomenally rich in lacing, ticking, size,\\nand beautiful, symmetrical form. Goldie\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Flossie has a finish rarely seen at\\nfour months of age. She has arrived at an early maturity, a fact which we be\u00c2\u00ac\\nlieve to be attributable to our methods of management, plenty of space for ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nercise, abundance of air and sunlight and other chances for development.\\nSWEET MARIE is by Lord Cayenne out of Lady Rochdale. We could expend\\na half page of description upon her but will content ourselves with saying\\nthat she is one of the flowers of the Bonanza Rabbitry. We have three of this\\nlitter bred to Fashoda.\\nMISS AMBROSE\u00e2\u0080\u0094By Ambrose, imported. Her dam is one of the old and tried\\nbreeders of the Bonanza Rabbitry. She is actually burdened with color and has\\na rarely rich abundance of ear lacing, grand feet and legs. Her progeny are su\u00c2\u00ac\\nperior to herself and, on this account, she is one of the animals that are simply\\ninvaluable in a herd.\\nLITTLE NELL\u00e2\u0080\u0094By Rochdale, out of Gold Bug\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Gem. Might properly be\\ncharacterized as a gem. She has the ideal head and foot coupled with extreme\\nlength of body, beautiful and symmetrical. This fine doe is bred to Blooming\\nHeather. Her sister and counterpart is bred to Beauty\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Noble.\\nHere we shall end our description of our breeding animals. We might carry\\nthis catalogue out to cover a dozen or more pages describing others\\namong our more than eighty breeding animals, similar in quality to those already\\nmentioned, and each scoring close to 95 points. These scores are not, in any\\nsense, fictitious, but are open to comparison with the opinions of the most ex\u00c2\u00ac\\npert and critical judge to be found. If these hares were put into prime condi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion for exhibition, by grooming, care in feeding and training, a gain might be\\nmade in each of from one-half to three-fourths of a point, perhaps of a whole\\npoint, and this could be done in a period of from fifteen to thirty days. In the\\nabove descriptions we have named the grandest bucks in existence today and\\nas many does of equal merit. Although it may be repetition we wish to say\\nagain that all of these does except three were bred at our own rabbitry and that\\nour two imported does were the best that money could buy after an exhaustive\\nsearch of thirteen months.\\nAll of the cuts shown in this booklet are from photographs taken from life.\\nIn Fashoda s picture especially note the vigor and vitality shown by his beauti\u00c2\u00ac\\nfully clear and prominent eye.\\nA COMPARISON OF SCORE CARDS.\\nAs a measure of determining the value of hares, the high ratings claimed by\\nsome owners are often misleading to the public, and even the score card, al\u00c2\u00ac\\nthough the best means that we have at our command, is\\nnot always clear to the amateur as indicating a choice be-", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "YOUNG FASHODA at 4 months of age.\\nToo young yet to score. Sire, Champion Fashoda; dam Bonanza Queen II. The peer of his\\nillustrious sire. Reserved for our stud.\\n.f", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\ntween two specimens both scoring high. It is evidence that the one\\nhare might excel in qualities easily obtained and possessed in common with\\nhundreds of others. The other might excel in qualities most difficult to obtain\\nand rarely found anywhere. Obviously the latter would be the more valuable,\\nfrom any and every point of view, because it would be vastly more difficult\\nto duplicate him and also because he would transmit to his offspring the very\\ndesirable qualities most difficult to obtain. Still, through lack of care in fit\u00c2\u00ac\\nting, and through differences in age and management, especially with bucks\\nand does of a breeding age, the hare of the greater intrinsic value might fall a\\ntrifle short in the footings as compared with a less valuable animal.\\nAs an illustration of these facts, we present herewith a comparison of the\\nscore cards of Lord Nason and Champion Fashoda. Judge P. E. Crabtree of\\nDenver, was the scorer and judge of both of these hares. Lord Nason\u00e2\u0080\u0099s score\\ncard is printed in Judge Crabtree\u00e2\u0080\u0099s paper, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Agricultural and Live Stock\\nHerald,\u00e2\u0080\u009d issue of April 20, 1900. The rating given to Fashoda was that by\\nwhich he took the International Championship at the Los Angeles Exposition,\\nFebruary, igoo. Lord Nason is scored at 96, Fashoda at 95%. Yet we con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntend, most emphatically, that Fashoda is by far the better animal, and we pro\u00c2\u00ac\\npose to illustrate our position by a full analysis of the score cards of both.\\nIn order to make the illustration as clear as possible, we present both cards\\nin full herewith. They are as follows:\\nLORD NASON.\\nFASHODA.\\nStray hairs\\n14\\nColor of body\\nperfect.\\nColor of sides\\n14\\n14\\nColor of hindquarters\\n14\\nColor of jaws\\n14\\nTicking\\n.1%\\nShape of body\\nperfect.\\nShape of flank and rib\\ny 4\\nShape of back\\nperfect.\\nShape of loins\\nperfect.\\nShape of head\\nLacing of ears\\nSize of ears\\nperfect.\\nShape of ears..\\nperfect.\\nColor of ears\\ny 2\\n14\\nQuality of ears\\nEyes perfect in both specimens.\\n14\\nLength of front legs\\nperfect.\\nShape of front feet and legs\\ny 4\\nColor front feet and legs\\n.perfect.\\nperfect.\\nQuality of front feet and legs\\n.perfect.\\nperfect.\\nColor of hind feet\\nperfect.\\nBoth specimens perfect in size,\\nconditi an of flesh and\\ncondition of fur.\\nShape of neck, a cut of 14 in each.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "MYRTLE, MAYFLOWER, MARIPOSA LILY AND MARIGOLD.\\nLitter sisters at 7 months of a\u00c2\u00a3e. Sire, imported Lord Britain; dam, Bonanza Beauty. Scores 94J4, 94J6, 94J\u00c2\u00a3 and 95. Weight 9, 9B, 9 1 and\\n9;+ lbs. Bred at Bonanza Rabbitry and reserved as breeders. e", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nFor those who may not be familiar with the score card, we may say that ioo\\nrepresents perfection in every detail. The above fractions are the deductions\\nto be made from ioo for deficiencies in the specimen. The card contains 29\\nsections and each specimen is estimated in each of these sections. Adding\\nLord Nason\u00e2\u0080\u0099s deficiencies, we find that they amount to a total of four points,\\nwhich, deducted from 100, leaves a score of 96. Adding Fashoda\u00e2\u0080\u0099s deficiencies\\nwe find that they aggregate 4V2, which, also deducted from 100, leaves a score\\nof 95V2, or V2 point less than the score of Lord Nason by the same judge.\\nBut when we come to look at the reasons for these deductions,\\nor \u00e2\u0080\u009cpunishments,\u00e2\u0080\u009d as they are called in the technical language of\\nthe scorer, we shall find all these reasons in favor of Fashoda.\\nWe shall make no comment on those points wherein both animals score alike,\\nbut shall discuss only the points of difference. The point of \u00e2\u0080\u009cstray hairs\u00e2\u0080\u009d is\\nthe very first of these. Here we find that Fashoda was cut 14 of a point for\\nhalf a dozen or more stray white hairs scattered over his body. We ought to\\nhave gone over him before the exhibition and picked these out, but we were\\nvery busy at the time and did not find an opportunity. The next point of\\ndifference is the color of the hindquarters. Here Lord Nason loses V2 and\\nFashoda Perfection in color of the hindquarters is a point most difficult of\\nattainment. In color of jaws, Lord Nason is perfect and Fashoda stands a\\npunishment of 14 As regards ticking, waviness included, Lord Nason is cut\\niVi, Fashoda, In shape of flank and rib, Lord Nason has an advantage of\\n14 of a point. In shape of head he gains V2, in lacing of ears, 14 In color of\\nears, Lord Nason loses 14 and Fashoda loses 14 in quality. They are alike in\\nother points until we come to the color of the hind feet, where Fashoda has an\\nadvantage to the extent of 14 of a point. Each has a cut of 14 in the shape\\nof the neck.\\nNow, in analyzing these scores from the fancier\u00e2\u0080\u0099s standpoint, it will be con\u00c2\u00ac\\nceded that the most difficult element to procure in an animal ap\u00c2\u00ac\\nproaching the ideal, is color, all the way through. This applies\\nequally to color of body, sides, hindquarters, jaws, ticking, lacing,\\ncolor of ears, and of both front and hind feet. The most difficult of all and\\nthe point for which fanciers struggle hardest and longest, is to procure hind\\nfeet perfect in color. Next is the color of the hindquarters. Probably equal\\ndifficulty has been experienced in establishing the ideal quantity and propor\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of ear lacing, together with the ideal color of the ear. Now in these\\npoints, we find Fashoda has the advantage over Lord Nason of of a point\\nin the color of his feet. In other words, he is absolutely perfect in this respect,\\nwhile Lord Nason is lacking. In the proportion of color in the hindquarters,\\nFashoda is again ahead Another and very important section of the score\\ncard is ticking. Fashoda is ahead here V2 of a point. In color of ear, Fa\u00c2\u00ac\\nshoda leads M of a point. In shape of flank and rib he loses 4 but this is a\\npoint wherein perfection can be attained by any high-class hare simply by\\nfeeding and handling. Fashoda stood a punishment in this respect because\\nwe were overpressed with work before the exposition and had no time to de-", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "39\\nDR. B. C. PLATT.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nvote to fitting him. He went upon the exhibition table absolutely without\\nspecial preparation, and directly from the stud. He lost of a point here\\nwhich might easily have been saved.\\nIn shape of head Fashoda loses of a point. This is entirely owing to a\\ndifference of some six or seven months in age, as the thickening of the head\\nand jaws increases rapidly in bucks after they begin to be used in the stud.\\nConsequently there should be no comparison between a buck that has entered\\nthe stud and one that has not, and, moreover, has been fitted to the highest\\ndegree by care and manipulation. The color of the feet, on the contrary, is\\nsomething that cannot be put upon a hare by feeding or manipulation. Nature\\nalone can do this. It is a product of skillful mating continued for generations.\\nWhen the young buck has reached the age of fourteen or fifteen months, say five\\nmonths in the stud, and has taken on coarseness in head, flank and rib, yet is\\nstill lacking in the color of his feet, and also is lacking in ticking as to\\ntake a punishment of i% in that important particular, he comes down the scale\\nvery rapidly, and is fortunate if he gets out with a score of two points or\\ntwo and a half points under that made in tie prime tf his life and cond tion, befo e\\nentering the stud. This has been the experience of every buck that has come\\nbefore the public except Fashoda.\\nMany expected that he, too, would come down in the scale and would not\\nbe, after entering the stud, anywhere near where he was before. But he still\\nhas the richness of ticking, which, together with his perfect coloring, produces\\nthe most beautiful effect ever seen upon a buck at any age, and is absolutely\\nperfect in coloring of all four feet.\\nThe punishment of of a point which Fashoda received in shape of neck\\nwas a result of lancing for a boil on his under jaw four or five days before\\nthe exhibition. This was a mere incident not affecting his value or condition\\nafter his recovery from the boil, an illness undoubtedly due to changes in life\\nfollowing importation, change in climate and kinds of food.\\nLast but not least, Fashoda has the advantage of every imported buck in this\\ncountry, in weight. He exceeds the required eight pounds by one pound and\\nthis gives him over sixteen per cent, gain over Lord Nason and over twentv\\nper cent, advantage over the next best imported buck in America. A fine tiny\\nhare is nice to have, but a magnificent, large specimen is by far preferable.\\nThe claims made by certain parties of having secured an international cham\u00c2\u00ac\\npionship are also misleading. There has been but one international competi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion thus far, that at the Los Angeles show, in February, igoo. We secured\\nthe championship prize, $100 in gold. It was paid to us and we have the of\u00c2\u00ac\\nficial certificate to the fact. The score card of Fashoda given herewith is an\\nexact copy of the card furnished us in this contest, in open competition among\\niioo head. This analysis, with some changes, applies to Ajax, as well as\\nto Lord Nason. His score card entitles him to a punishment of V* on color of\\nfeet, and he makes up for the deficiency, and the difference between gs 1\\nand g6, by the grooming and starving process employed in fitting him for ex-", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "41\\nELMER L. PLATT.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nhibition, whereby his flanks and ribs were drawn in and made more symetrical.\\nThis is not a natural shape of the hare and will never be carried by any buck\\nin the stud or when eating freely and naturally. In fact, in justice to all\\nparties, the classification and grading of animals in all comparisons should be\\nmade upon some basis that will place the bucks exhibited upon an equality.\\nThis cannot be done when one animal has been in stud and the other not, or\\nwhen there is a marked difference in age. These are points which the public\\nshould consider carefully, especially those fanciers who are aiming to build up\\na name and a herd of choice exhibition specimens, and to prepare themselves\\nto breed exhibition stock. Fashoda in his prime, say in his ninth-month form,\\nwould undoubtedly have saved of a point on flank and rib, M of a point on\\nshape of front feet, and V* of a point on shape of neck,\\nand at least Vz point on shape of head. This saving would\\nhave entitled him to a score of 96%. Fashoda has now been six months in the\\nstud. Ajax was never in the stud. Lord Nason had done but little if any\u00c2\u00ac\\nthing in the stud. He was not in the competition although he was in Los\\nAngeles at the time. Fashoda is the only buck ever scored perfect in hind feet.\\nIn a word, we again challenge the world to produce Fashoda s equal under equal\\nconditions of comparison.\\nSHIPPING TO DISTANT POINTS.\\nWe have young from most of the above described bucks and does and from\\nothers of our herd of breeders constantly on hand and for sale. They represent\\na great variety of matings and we are constantly striving to keep ourselves in\\nposition to fill any reasonable selection. We ship hares at two months of age\\nand over to comparatively near-by points and at three months and over to any\\npoint- in the United States or to points abroad. We send all hares in a light\\ncrate of our own devising, plentifully supplied with food and with every possible\\ncare on our part that they may arrive in first-class condition.\\nThe express companies will now insure the safe arrival of hares for a premium\\nof ten per cent, extra charge upon the total valuation above five dollars.\\nOur terms are cash with order. We do not ship hares C. 0 D. as this is an\\nimpracticable method with live-stock and not customary. Shipping live-stock is\\na different proposition from sending off sewing machines, bicycles or similar\\nmerchandise which may properly be shipped subject to inspection and trial. We\\nguarantee everything sold to be precisely as represented in this publication or in\\nour correspondence, and consider our reputation as breeders and dealers of too\\ngreat importance to us, from a financial standpoint, to be endangered by any", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "43\\nlack of care on our part. Up to the present time we have had no controversy\\nwith any patron and have yet to learn of any dissatisfaction with our methods\\nor with the hares that we have sold. We have many customers who have re\u00c2\u00ac\\npeated their orders, some of them as many as eight times.\\nThe following examples will serve to give an idea of a practical way in which\\nto start small herds:\\nFirst: For a small outlay of money a pair about three months of age, buck and\\ndoe, may be had, and when five months, old, mated.\\nSecond: We may select a doe bred and, when ready to breed again, have\\nher bred to some other good buck, either in your own town or by shipping her to\\nsome reputable breeder possessing a fine stud buck. In this way, you need have\\nonly one doe to start with and still increase your herd by young litters and\\nnew blood, choosing a buck of a different strain of blood from the young litter that\\nthe doe first brought you.\\nThird: For this start we will select a doe, five months of age, bred to a good\\nbuck, not akin to her. With the bred doe we will take a young buck, three\\nand one-half months of age and then he will be ready to serve the doe when\\nher first litter is four to six weeks old.\\nFourth: For this we will select two does and two bucks, not akin to each\\nother in any way you may place them, and about three months of age. This\\narrangement allows of independent breeding in this herd for a period of from\\none and one-half to two years, without inbreeding or going outside the herd for\\nnew blood. If the does of this lot are selected at five months of age, and the\\nbucks at three and one-half months, and the does bred at date of purchase to\\nbucks not akin to them or to the young bucks that are brought with them, then\\none can breed on for three years or more without inbreeding or going outside one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nown herd.\\nTo establish a large herd as many as twenty-five does may be allowed to one\\nbuck, but to be able to make up pairs and trios for sale, and not akin, at least\\nthree bucks should be kept in the herd and as many as three separate and dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ntinct strains of blood. If you wish to make up a herd of four, six or eight does\\nand send them out with bucks not akin to them, you will see the necessity of\\nhaving as many as eight, ten or twelve strains of blood in the herd.\\nWe desire to start every beginner right in this business. For this reason we\\nhave only high-class stock for sale. We have none of the old-fashioned type now\\npractically worthless and do not cater to the patronage of the huckster and spec\u00c2\u00ac\\nulator. We do not furnish score cards with inferior stock rating it at five times\\nits value, for we have no inferior stock to sell. It has come to our notice that\\nfrauds are being practiced upon unsuspecting buyers and that worthless, cheap\\nstock is being doctored up with paint and hair-dye to conceal disqualifying\\nmarks, and that this class of stock is being palmed off on a pretense that it is\\nthe best.\\nWe warn purchasers against frauds of this kind. This is only one of the\\nnumerous methods of misrepresentation employed. Others are the forging of the", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nnames of well-known judges to score cards, manufacturing pedigrees and imitat\u00c2\u00ac\\ning blanks and forms employed by reputable and responsible breeders.\\nWe furnish an authentic and reliable score card, bearing a\\ngold seal of the National Association of Belgian Hare Judges made out in\\nink and signed with the full name of our manager, in ink, with each hare pur\u00c2\u00ac\\nchased from us. We also furnish certificate of sale and pedigree and certificate\\nof breeding in cases where the does are bred to any of our bucks and cer\u00c2\u00ac\\ntificates of registration in the National herd books. We guarantee the genu\u00c2\u00ac\\nineness of these over our own signature and are financially responsible for all\\nour guarantees. These forms are all of our own designs and are the most com\u00c2\u00ac\\nplete and beautifully prepared ever invented. They measure nine by twelve\\ninches and are works of art.\\nWe take pride in all the details of our business and believe that a thoroughly\\nsatisfied customer is the best advertisement possible. The form of score card\\nwhich we employ is the official form of the National Association of Belgian\\nHare Judges. When we ship does bred we furnish, in addition to the certifi\u00c2\u00ac\\ncate of breeding, an affidavit taken before a notary public.\\nWe employ all of our large experience and our skill in the mating of animals\\npurchased from us, when requested by patrons, for making up a foundation\\nherd, large or small, with a view to producing an improvement upon the orig\u00c2\u00ac\\ninal stock in the offspring. Our selection is further aided by the large number of\\nstrains, sixteen families, which we have at our command. Our success in this\\ndirection is amply demonstrated by our record at the late exposition. This was\\nnot secured by a hit or miss process of mating and breeding but by studying and\\napplying scientific principles, long understood and thoroughly tested in large\\nherds of larger live-stock for a period of nearly thirty years.\\nWith the organization of hundreds of Belgian hare clubs and other similar\\norganizations throughout the country for the purpose of developing the Belgian\\nhare industry there will be given many Belgian hare expositions for years to\\ncome. Parties who take time by the forelock and prepare themselves to com\u00c2\u00ac\\npete successfully for the prizes in these shows will do well to keep their eyes\\nupon the Bonanza Rabbitry as the source of supply for prize-winners. We are\\nmaking a specialty, of making matings for the express purpose of producing cer\u00c2\u00ac\\ntain types to meet the requirements of breeders and to supply deficiencies in\\nherds. When we contract to furnish a specimen of a certain quality, for in\u00c2\u00ac\\nstance one that will score, say 91 to 92 points or 94\\nto 95 points, at six or seven months of age, we will\\ncertainly fill the bill or the contract may be canceled without cost to\\nthe party ordering. In this, as in every other feature of this industry we have\\nled and still lead. Others follow. We originate; others imitate; we invent;\\nothers pattern. A word to the wise is sufficient.\\nI rfC.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE HOME OF DR. B. C. PLATT.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\nTESTIMONIALS ABOUT THE \u00e2\u0080\u009cBONANZA RABBITRY\u00e2\u0080\u009d MANUAL.\\nDENVER, Colo., Dec. ioth, 1898.\\nDr. B. C Platt. Los Angeles. Cal.,\\nDear Sir:\\nI hereby acknowledge receipt of your book, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Bonanza Rabbitry,\u00e2\u0080\u009d for which\\nplease accept thanks. After looking it over carefully I find it the best of many\\nthat have come to my desk. Its particular information, together with the illus\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrations, especially the view of the house and runs where you keep your rabbits,\\nmake it a book that every fancier should have, certainly every beginner. A care\u00c2\u00ac\\nful study of it would easily save the price of the book, as one gets the benefit\\nof the experience of one who has carefully studied the question from all sides.\\nBelieving, as I do, in the value of the book, I shall take pleasure in recommend\u00c2\u00ac\\ning it to the breeders when opportunity offers. Wishing you the success you de\u00c2\u00ac\\nserve, I remain, yours very truly,\\nJ. L. DEVALON,\\nSecretary of the National Belgian Hare Club of America.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Agricultural and Live Stock Herald\u00e2\u0080\u009d of Denver, Colorado, says that the\\nbest work on Belgian Hares ever yet issued is \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Bonanza Rabbitry,\u00e2\u0080\u009d by Dr. B.\\nC. Platt, of Los Angeles, California, and that it is a very complete and valuable\\nbook. The editor of this paper is an expert breeder of Belgian hares and the\\nbest judge in this country.\\nAVALON, Cal., July 14th, 1899.\\nDr. B. C. Platt, Los Angeles, Cal.:\\nDear Sir: I have read carefully your book on the Belgian hare for pleasure\\nand for profit, and am fully convinced, from my experience in following the di\u00c2\u00ac\\nrections so carefully laid down therein that any person of intelligence, by the\\nuse of common sense, has at hand, from that book, all the information necessary\\nto successfully breed hares of a high type. I am also convinced that a departure\\nfrom those rules, and the use of the box hatch, has caused many failures to pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nduce satisfactory results. Very truly yours,\\nA. W. JONES,", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "47\\nThe following is quoted from \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Boyle Heights Press,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Los Angeles, Cal.,\\nand refers to \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Bonanza Rabbitry:\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cThis is a most excellent little work, and\\nis exactly what beginners require and they should have it before they begin.\\nIt will save them many times its cost in helping them to avoid mistakes. This\\nmanual is the most complete and comprehensive work of its kind ever issued,\\nand, by following the directions therein contained, every fancier and every rab\u00c2\u00ac\\nbit farmer may secure success and profit. It is the result of extensive experience\\nand many original experiments.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cPerhaps the pioneer in the real awakening of the hare industry is Dr. B. C.\\nPlatt, author and publisher of \u00e2\u0080\u0098The Bonanza Rabbitry.\u00e2\u0080\u0099 He is also an active\\nbreeder of very choice animals and an able writer on the subject.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094(Agricultural\\nand Live Stock Herald, Denver, Colorado.)\\nWe cannot quote prices on hares in this booklet, for we have too many differ\u00c2\u00ac\\nent values. But we invite correspondence upon this point. Write us fully, stat\u00c2\u00ac\\ning your wants in detail, and we will answer promptly and tell you what we\\ncan do for you.\\nAddress all communications to\\nDR. B. C. PLATT,\\nDR. B. C. PLATT AND SON, ELMER. Business Manager Bonanza Rabbitry.\\n930 Grand View Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal.\\nSend to Crabtree Devalon, 1448 Curtis St., Denver, Colorado, for sample\\ncopies of the Agricultural and Live Stock Herald, an eight-page weekly, printed\\non good half-tone pdper, and beautifully illustrated.\\nThis is the best authority on the Belgian hare industry in this country. It\\nis also a first-class poultry and live stock authority with much other valuable\\nand interesting reading. The editors of this paper are really the fathers of\\nthe Belgian hare industry in this country.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\nTHE BONANZA RABBITRY OF TO-DAY.\\nIllustrating the open air, ground floor system of management.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "49\\nVALUABLE SPECIALTIES EOR BABBITRIES.\\nWe are inventors and manufa:turers of a number of specialties indispensable\\nin every well-appointed rabbitry. They include everything that the breeder\\nneeds for his own convenience and for the comfort and health of his pets. We\\nsell all these supplies in quantities to suit, wholesale or retail. We quote\\nherein retail prices. Prices on larger quantities given on application. These\\narticles are protected by letters patent.\\nOUR HAY RACK.\\nIs the neatest and most convenient known for feeding\\nhay. It is constructed of strong wire and is very durable. Can be ad\u00c2\u00ac\\njusted to any pen in a moment. With this rack it is impossible for hares to\\ncatch their ears to or do themselves any injury. Price, $2.50 per dozen.\\nTHE BONANZA SELF-REGULATING FEED BOX.\\nThese boxes prevent the waste of food and keep it always, clean. They are\\nmade of galvanized-iron, are neat and ornamental, can be regulated so that the\\nsupply of feed may be greater or less in accordance with the number and age\\nof the hares in a pen. Will save their cost in feed within a few weeks.\\nThey are 5 by 10 inches at the base, and 8 inches high. The self-regulat\u00c2\u00ac\\ning device is an adjustable slanting slide. Price, each, 75 cents. Per dozen,\\n$7.00.\\nSELF-REGULATING WATER-FOUNTAINS.\\nMade of galvanized iron; cylindrical in shape, with a circular base. By an\\napplication of a simple law of mechanics the two quarts of water contained\\nin one of these fountains is suspended in the circular chamber and trikles\\nout into the basin at the base as taken away by the hares. Water is kept\\nfresh, clean and pure. Price, each, 50 cents. By the dozen, $5.00.\\nThe above three devices are economical of time and labor as they do not\\nrequire frequent refilling.\\nBRACKETS FOR SUSPENDING WATER FOUNTAINS.\\nThese brackets retain the water- fountains at any desired height above the\\nground. Made of strong wire, readily adjusted, keep the young hares from get\u00c2\u00ac\\nting into the water, defiling it and injuring themselves. Price, $1.00 per\\ndozen.\\nSHIPPING CRATES.\\nMade in sections suited to shipping a single hare or half a dozen young\\nones that have been reared together and will dwell in harmony. As many\\nsections up to six as are desired may be added. These are one foot in height\\nand two feet and a half in diameter. They are circular in form. They will\\nlast a life time. Hares shipped in these crates take long journeys and arrive\\nin the pink of condition. Express companies endorse this crate and return it\\nfree. Price, single section, $10.00.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50\\nCERTIFICATES OF SALE AND PEDIGREE BLANKS.\\nFor sale in books of one or two hundred, bound. These are ornamental and\\ncomplete. Neatest of anything yet devised. Certificate nine by twelve inches,\\nartistic in design, beautifully printed on a fine quality of paper. Contains\\nfull history of animal sold, extended in tabulated form. Stub serves as a rec\u00c2\u00ac\\nord of the transaction and a private herd register. Price, book of ioo, $2.75;\\nbook of 200, $4.00. We print in title of rabbitry and name and address of\\nproprietor. Will employ a cut of any animall that may be desired. Cuts must\\nbe two inches by four and a quarter inches, half-tones. When we furnish\\nhalf-tones from photographs furnished us, the cost is $2.25 additional.\\nCERTIFICATES OF BREEDING.\\nPrepared on precisely the same plan as the above. Give full pedigrees of the\\nbucks which they represent. From ph otograph of the buck desired to be\\nillustrated on pedigree we will furnish half-tone and printed pedigree in ex\u00c2\u00ac\\ntended tablated form. Where cut is furnished we will furish book of 100\\nblanks for $3.25. When we furnish half-tone from photographs furnished us\\nthere is an additional cost of $2.25.\\nALUMINUM EAR-TAGS.\\nLight, substantially made, of the best grade of this material, accompanied\\nby a suitable size and quality of annealed aluminum wire, keeps the tags\\nsecure. Numbered consecutively in a series of from one to one thousand. Price\\n$1 per hundred. Punch suitable for setting, special make, 75 cents.\\nA SUPERIOR FORM OF PEN CARD.\\nThese when filled, serve as a private herd register. We print with title of\\nrabbitry, or name of owner, without extra charge. Price $1.00 per one hun\u00c2\u00ac\\ndred.\\nRegister your hares with the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BELGIAN\\nHARE JUDGES. We have the BEST SYSTEM ever devised.\\nOUR PLAN.\\nWe propose to divide all hares sent to us for registration into three classes.\\nThe first will include record-makers, and will be called the record class. This\\nwill include hares that have won prizes in open contests in public exhibitions.\\nThe second may be termed the general class. Into this will be admitted\\nall hares that have reached the age of six months. The third class will in\u00c2\u00ac\\nclude hares under six months that have descended from prize-winning, regis\u00c2\u00ac\\ntered stock, either sire or dam. It will be called the junior class..\\nWe shall have an additional book in which names selected for hares will\\nbe recorded. No other animals will be recorded under the same name. This\\ninsures protection to a breeder in theuse of a name even before the animal\\nto which the name shall apply has been selected. This may be called ad\u00c2\u00ac\\nvanced registration.\\nThe uniform fee for registration in either class will be one dollar. In cases\\nwhen a name is registered the hare to which that name shall apply will, when\\nselected be assigned a number and a certificate of registration without\\nadditional charge. Transferring from class No. 3 to the record class, when-", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "5i\\never a specimen becomes eligible, will be made for a fee of fifty cents and\\na certificate of registration, giving record of winnings, will be furnished.\\nCertificates of transfer from the original owner registering to a buyer will\\nbe made for a fee of twenty-five cents.\\nRules governing, instructions in general, together with blank forms of appli\u00c2\u00ac\\ncations for registration, and forms of certificates for transfer, sample of certifi\u00c2\u00ac\\ncate of registration, also an essay on the advantages of registration and of scor\u00c2\u00ac\\ning hares, will be sent upon receipt of ten cents in stamps or coin.\\nThe certificate of registration is the most carefully prepared, beautifully\\ndesigned and artistically illustrated piece of work ever put forth by the pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nmoters of any live-stock industry in America or elsewhere. It needs only\\nto be seen to be thoroughly appreciated.\\nAddress Dr. B. C. PLATT, President of the National Association of Belgian\\nHare Judges, 930 Grand View Ave., LosAngeles, Cal.\\nBRILLIANTINE\\nAt S months. Weight 7 pounds. Sired by Im\u00c2\u00ac\\nported Brilliant, dam Cora, a youngster of rare\\nindividual excellence. Not for sale.\\nHEATHER BELL\\nAt 6 months. Weight 8 pounds. Score 94Jt\\nSired by Blooming Heather, dam Bonanza\\nMaid. A buck of grand size, extremely rich in\\ncolor and beautifully shaped. Not for sale.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "New edition of our well-known work on the Belgian Hare, entitled:\\nIn this edition, this Manual, already the most complete and satisfactory\\nbook on the subject, has been completely rewritten and revised. It now contains\\nfour or five times the original quantity of reading matter. Chapters have been adled\\non every phase of the industry, both those that appeal to the practical busin.ss\\nman, who regards the Belgian Hare purely as an article of commerce, and those\\nthat interest the wide-awake, progressive, up-to-date fancier. We believe that\\nevery possible feature of this extensive subject has been carefully considered.\\nThe book has been enriched by the finest half-tones of Belgian hares that\\nhave ever been produced. We have spared no pains or expense to secure these,\\nand have employed the most competent artists available in this line. It is\\nvery handsomely printed on heavy, coated book paper. As an illustration of\\nthe art of printer and engraver, it is a beautiful book, well worth presenting fcr\\nthis cause alone.\\nThis book gives minute directions on breeding, care, feeding, management, mar\u00c2\u00ac\\nketing, including plans, directions and cost; tables for constructing large and\\nsmall rabbitries. Its chapter on cooking, and lists of receipts, is very com\u00c2\u00ac\\nplete. It discusses all the more common diseases of the hare with much prac\u00c2\u00ac\\ntical and expert advice, based upon large experience and exhaustive investiga\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions. Its chapter in mating, breeding prize-winners, and preparing spec\\nmens for exhibition, and training for perfection in reaching the standard of the\\nideal, will open new and unexplored fields to the fancier. Such subjects as\\nthe score card, the system of judging, the true spirit of the fancier, registra\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, breeder\u00e2\u0080\u0099s association, and the like, are discussed in a fair, manly and con\u00c2\u00ac\\nservative spirit.\\nWritten by Dr. Dr. B. C. Platt, President of the National Association of Belgian\\nHare Judges, and undoubtedly the leading authority upon this subject. This\\nbook will become the standard work upon this subject, for the use of the ama\u00c2\u00ac\\nteur, the fancier, and the professional judge of Belgian Hares. Price of this man\u00c2\u00ac\\nual, $1.00; postage paid.", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "u\\n_i cos\\n5 it\\nir:-\\nn\\nIA\\n7\\n7J\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0*^2.\\nc\\nC\u00e2\u0080\u0094 u\u00c2\u00bb\\nG\\\\\\nj\\nO\\n63 \\\\G^\\nr \u00c2\u00abj\\no\\nJ\\nc:\\nCO\\nrr JUT\\nr ~i ,r\\\\\\nc:\\no o\\nX 7\\nCa\\nt~\\\\\\n3^3\\nV 3\\ng\\nJ\\nas\\nn\\nrs\\n3\\nO CN\\nDO\\nLA\\nCi\\nr\\nc\\\\\\nVVjP\\n0,\\nI- fr_\\nO_ v, r\\nr^S-S p-\\no\\nC-\\nCI7\\nA\\nrv =i\\nv/\\nX\\nUi\\nKS\\\\", "height": "3273", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "bonanzarabbitry00plat_0060.jp2"}}