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Title: The first Belgian hare course of instruction. Twenty lessons. Complete directions for buying, sheltering, feeding, breeding ... developing a business, etc. ... with a true history of the Belgian hare ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Crabtree, Pleasant Elijah New England Belgian Hare Company Rice, Elmer Cook, 1868-
Subjects: Belgian hare
Publisher: Boston, New England, New England Belgian Hare Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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) cut just five incheslong, and two inches wide—in fact, so wide that it will notslip down into the hollows back or in front of the ear, butwill rest squarely across the back of the skull. Do not use a foot rule or a six inch measure which is aptto be only one inch or less in width. Catch the ears by their thick edges with the thumb andmiddle linger of the left, hand and pull them up close to themeasure, which is pushed down closely by the forefinger ofthe right hand. Get a good grip and use the free forefinger of the left handto nurse the rule and ears into a parallel position, close to-gether at the top. Shortness of ear should be cut as follows: Shortness of one-quarter of an inch or less, cut one-quarterot a point. Shortness of three-eighths of an inch, cut one-half a point. Shortness of half an inch, cut three-quarters of a point. Shortness of three-quarters of an inch, cut one point. The foregoing cuts apply to a mature specimen. Cut one-half as severe on an immature specimen.
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CopyriKlit, I.IOI, liy the New Kiiglaiul lieigian Hare (Jo. SCORING SYMMETRY OF FLANK ANI) RIB. For Description See Page l.K. HOW TO SCORE 159 Do not cut for an extra long ear. or any other requirementin excess of the standard. EAR SHAPE. The standard says well set on. This is not definiteenough. For perfection, imagine a line starting from a pointon the nose one-quarter of an inch from the nostril and pass-ing through another point three-quarters of an inch forwardfrom the top of the skull. Position No. 3 on the ear shouldbe on the line between these two points. Cut accordingly.Two points is the limit. EAR COLOR. For color of ear, we want as rufous a shade of golden ascan be, inside and outside of ear. There is no need to examine the color on the inside of theear, for a good color on the outside will carry a good color onthe inside, and a bad color on the outside will be accompaniedby a bad color on the inside. If the outside is rich in color, the inside will be creamy. If the outsid

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