. Biggle poultry book; a concise and practical treatise on the management of farm poultry. LIST OF COLORED PLATES. PIRATE I. Barred Plymouth Rocks. PLATE) II. Silver Laced Wyandottes. PLATE) HI. LIGHT Brahmas. PLATE) IV. Dark Brahmas. PLATE) V. Buff Cochins. PLATE) VI. Partridge Cochins. PLATE) VII. Langshans. PLATE) VIII. Single Comb Brown Leghorns. PLATE) IX. Silver Polish and Golden Penciled Ham- BURGS. PLATE) X. Houdans. PLATE) XL Silver Gray Dorkings. PLATE) XII. Indian Games. PLATE) XIII. Representative Breeds of Bantams PLATE) XIV. Bronze Turkeys. PLATE) XV. Rouen and Muscovy Ducks PLAT
. Biggle poultry book; a concise and practical treatise on the management of farm poultry. LIST OF COLORED PLATES. PIRATE I. Barred Plymouth Rocks. PLATE) II. Silver Laced Wyandottes. PLATE) HI. LIGHT Brahmas. PLATE) IV. Dark Brahmas. PLATE) V. Buff Cochins. PLATE) VI. Partridge Cochins. PLATE) VII. Langshans. PLATE) VIII. Single Comb Brown Leghorns. PLATE) IX. Silver Polish and Golden Penciled Ham- BURGS. PLATE) X. Houdans. PLATE) XL Silver Gray Dorkings. PLATE) XII. Indian Games. PLATE) XIII. Representative Breeds of Bantams PLATE) XIV. Bronze Turkeys. PLATE) XV. Rouen and Muscovy Ducks PLATE) XVI. Totjlouse and Brown China Geese. Chapter I. PRELIMINARY This little book is intendedto help farmers and villagersconduct the poultry businesswith pleasure and profit. Itsteachings are not drawn fromthe authors inner conscious-ness exclusively, but from,practical experience, studyand have been successful in the business myself, notas a fancier, but as a farmer, a fact which I do notattribute to my own ability entirely, but partly to thehelp derived from the stimulating and restraininginfluence of my good wife Harriet, and to Martha,the industrious and vigilant spouse of our faithful good deal of what I know and have written hasreally been derived from a diligent perusal of theFarm Journal^ and I confess to having borrowed con-siderably from its pages both in text and must therefore be given in a comprehensiveway to the Poultry Editor of that publication, whosediscerning mind and great experience with poultry 8 BIGGIE POUI/TRY BOOK. have received the widest recognition by all interestedin the poultry i
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