After concluding my trip through Shanghai's Stock Yards," Mr.- Kilner invited me fo visit the breeding hutches maintained by the health office. These hutches are also in Fearon road, not far distant from the abattoir, and they too are models of cleanliness.
The hutches contain more than 500 white rabbits in. practically every stage of growth, and are built in long orderly rows on top of clean straw. The rabbits were being fed on a profusion of green cabbage leaves and other tasty morsels as I passed, and wrinkled their nostrils in a most supercilious fashion.
Other pens contained nearly 230 guineapigs which scuttled back and forth in a most amusing manner as we approached. Both the rabbits and the guineapigs are highly essential for biological and pathological -purposes, the rabbits
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