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Title: Outdoor opportunities; the raising care of small animals, birds and plants; a practical treatise on the raising and care of small animals, birds and plants for profit and pleasure
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Outdoor enterprise publishing co., Kansas City, Mo. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Domestic animals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Kansa City, Mo., Outdoor enterprise publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and also the females by themselves.This is necessary as they become sexually mature when onlyabout four and five weeks old, and therefore it is not advis-able to leave them together. After weaning the young, give THE CAVY INDUSTRY 107 the mother a rest of one week, and then place her again withthe males by themselves and also the females by themselves.By doing this you can safely raise four litters a year fromeach female without injuring her. A female is good forat least six years of breeding, and in some cases femaleshave successfully raised young for nine years. Commercial Use of Cavies Cavies are useful for medical work, food, fur and fancy.Their usefulness in the medical field is almost beyond com-prehension. Practically every hospital and physician uses iCavies off and on in their medical work. Every universityand medical college keeps large quantities of Cavies on handfor research work. Every laboratory needs Cavies. Onelaboratory near Chicago alone uses 25,000 Cavies each year.
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FINE SPECIMENS OF CREAM, BLACK AND WHITE CAVIES Another institution near Philadelphia uses approximately50,000 baby pigs a year, and another institution near NewYork City uses about 40,000 a year. They are also used inlarge quantities on the Pacific Coast. The Government isalso a heavy buyer of Cavies and they use them at theirvarious Research Stations. The above is merely to give a slight idea of the vastquantities in which they are used, and this will give you anidea of the large commercial demand for Cavies. The de-mand for baby pigs is at nearly all times of the year aheadof the supply. Most laboratories desire them when fromnine to twelve ounces in weight, and again others want them 108 OUTDOOR OPPORTUNITIES of a larger size. Some desire only males and others wantonly females, but the majority of them do not care whetherthey get males or females, so long as they are healthy. The Cavy is generally known as the LIFE SAVER, be-cause it gives its own life to let others live. Some peo

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