NEW SCOTTISH INDUSTRY.
RABBIT BREEDING ASSOCIATION. EDINBURGH, Dee,. 19. There is an increasing demand for good quality pelts for the. trimming of coats, gowns, and millinery, and for the making of handbags, mocassins, collars, coats and stoles. The war-time need for increasing food production attracted town dwellers, land owners, small holders, cottars, and others to the breeding of rabbits for table purposes; but more recently some hundreds of persons have started keeping rabbits for the production of fur. It has been shown that successful rabbit breeding for fur can be carried out by novices at small capital outlay, and that with a little attention at regular hours it can be a fruitful source of income to small holders and others. A committee is circularising Scottish breeders with a view to getting them to .join an association, whose main objects shall lie lo promote the interests of Scottish breeders of all fur-bearing animals, (l).by carrying out on a cooperative basis the grading, dressing, and marketing of pelts and skins, and (2) by disseminating knowledge of breeding and management of fur-bear-ing animals, rabbits.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19250211.2.98
Bibliographic details
Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 February 1925, Page 11
Word Count
181NEW SCOTTISH INDUSTRY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 February 1925, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hawera Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in