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80 to 100 rabbits. Cases of half the size and
weight are also sent by some importers.
On the 26th of July last I received information
that 200,000 Australian rabbits
were stored in the Leadenhall Cold Air
Stores, being about one-third of a whole
consignment, packed in cases containing
about fifty rabbits each. In some all the
rabbits were found good, and in others no less
than fort)' out of fifty were putrid.
The total number of rabbits seized as unfit
for food on 26th July and following days was
28,150.
The Australian rabbits arrive in this
country frozen, but become soft in transit
from the ship to the cold air stores, and it
seems reasonable to conclude that the partial
thawing thus occasioned is fatal to their
unlimited preservation. They arrive with their
skins on, but are gutted; and are known in
the trade as wild rabbits; the skins for the