Poultry by Hugh Piper

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Author

Piper, Hugh

Title

Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition.

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

SF: Agriculture: Animal culture

Subject

Poultry -- Breeding

Category

Text

eBook-No.

38606

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38606

Release Date

January 18, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.POULTRY — A
2. 2.Practical Guide — CHOICE, BREEDING, REARING, AND MANAGEMENT
3. 3.FOWLS, TURKEYS, GUINEA-FOWLS, DUCKS, AND GEESE, — PROFIT AND EXHIBITION. — — HUGH PIPER, — ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT COLOURED PLATES. — Fourth Edition. — LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE & SONS. — LONDON: BARRETT, SONS AND CO., PRINTERS, SEETHING LANE.
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.CONTENTS. — GENERAL MANAGEMENT. — BREEDS.
6. 6.LIST OF PLATES.
7. 7.PROFITABLE AND ORNAMENTAL — POULTRY.
8. 8.CHAPTER I. — INTRODUCTION.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. — THE FOWL-HOUSE.
10. 10.CHAPTER III. — THE FOWL-YARD.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV. — FOOD.
12. 12.CHAPTER V. — EGGS.
13. 13.CHAPTER VI. — THE SITTING HEN.
14. 14.CHAPTER VII. — REARING AND FATTENING FOWLS.
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII. — STOCK, BREEDING, AND CROSSING.
16. 16.CHAPTER IX. — POULTRY SHOWS. — TECHNICAL TERMS.
17. 17.CHAPTER X. — COCHIN-CHINAS, OR SHANGHAES.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI. — BRAHMA-POOTRAS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XII. — MALAYS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII. — GAME.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV. — DORKINGS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XV. — SPANISH.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI. — HAMBURGS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVII. — POLANDS.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII. — BANTAMS.
26. 26.CHAPTER XIX. — FRENCH AND VARIOUS.
27. 27.CHAPTER XX. — TURKEYS.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXI. — GUINEA-FOWLS.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXII. — DUCKS.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIII. — GEESE.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIV. — DISEASES. — Moulting .
32. 32.FOOTNOTES:
33. 33.Transcriber's Note.

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