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The Practical Poultry Keeper By Lewis Wright
The Practical Poultry Keeper By Lewis Wright, with 8 Colored Plates and 24 Illustrations. 16 Engraving. 315 pages. 1909. The book covers: Poultry farming, management of adult fowls, natural hatching and chicken rearing, artificial hatching and rearing, table poultry, fattening and killing, Poultry on the farm, breeding for pints, breeding and rearing of prize stock, Exhibition, Cochins, Langshans, Brahmas, Malays, Aseels, and Indian Game, Game Fowls, Dorkings, Spanish, Minorcas, Leghorns,Hamburghs, Polish, Sultans, French Breeds, American Breeds, Miscellaneous Breeds, Bantams, Turkeys, Guinea-fowl, Pea-fowl, Ducks, Geese and Swans, Diseases, Vices, and Vermin. Nice index for specific references. 8 color plates (including frontispiece), illustrations index. Front and rear end covers have advertising. Minor wear to original cloth binding (green cloth), with gilt titles on spine. binding tight. Some minor foxing of contents.
Item# KEEP1
Price $80.00