' Fur and Flesh in Wartime'
W. King Wilson
In this talk to ' backyatders '—the first on rabbits in this series-W. King Wilson , head of the Experimental Rabbit Department of the National Institute of Poultry Husbandry, will discuss rabbits for food rather than for fur. He wants to let householders know that surplus greens from the back garden can be turned into good meat by feeding this surplus material to a few rabbits.
His interest in the subject goes back to schooldays. Since the last war, when the shortage of meat during 1917 and 1918, owing to submarine depredations, resulted in the Government's asking the people of the country to increase the supply of fresh meat by breeding rabbits for food, W. King Wilson has kept, bred, exhibited, and judged practically all varieties, and has lectured on the Continent as well as at home.