:45:04
That's an hour's work every day.
:45:07
- A kitchen garden?
- Precisely.
:45:12
Next I'll plant
some high-yield crop...
:45:17
vital for large-scale
rabbit breeding.
:45:21
Large-scale?
You mean big rabbits?
:45:24
What we mean is hundreds of rabbits
a month, if not thousands.
:45:29
No, Aimee, we'll stay
within reasonable limits.
:45:35
Bring me my manual.
:45:38
You've raised rabbits,
haven't you?
:45:42
I've got six,
and my uncle has 30.
:45:45
In spite of that...
:45:47
you probably don't realize
how prolifiic these rodents are.
:45:51
Here, read this.
:45:53
I can read,
but I don't understand numbers.
:45:58
Well, I do. It means that
with one pair of rabbits...
:46:02
a modern breeder can obtain
within three years...
:46:05
a monthly yield of 500 rabbits.
:46:09
But this expert warns
that raising over 5,000 head...
:46:12
becomes a public health hazard.
:46:14
With 1 ,000 males
and 5,000 females...
:46:17
a breeder would be overrun with
30,000 rabbits the fiirst month...
:46:21
and two million
by the tenth month!
:46:26
A province or even a whole country
could be wiped out by famine!
:46:31
- Really?
- Tell him about Australia!
:46:35
That unfortunate continent,
1 4 times bigger than France...
:46:38
almost perished from
an immigrant's pair of rabbits.
:46:42
Those rodents stripped
entire fiields and prairies bare!
:46:45
They had to build
a 1 2,000-mile electrifiied fence...
:46:50
and they had to slaughter
millions of them.
:46:54
Are you planning
to raise that type here?
:46:57
Certainly not.