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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.Piper, Hugh

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Piper, Hugh

Piper, Hugh

Poultry -- Breeding

CHAPTER XVI.--HAMBURGS                                             118

  CHAPTER XVII.--POLANDS                                             121

  CHAPTER XVIII.--BANTAMS                                            124

  CHAPTER XIX.--FRENCH AND VARIOUS                                   128

  CHAPTER XX.--TURKEYS                                               132

  CHAPTER XXI.--GUINEA-FOWLS                                         139

  CHAPTER XXII.--DUCKS                                               142

  CHAPTER XXIII.--GEESE                                              147

  CHAPTER XXIV.--DISEASES                                            150

LIST OF PLATES.

                                                                    PAGE
  PLATE I.--Facing the Title-page.

    White Dorking Cock--Coloured Dorkings--Duck-winged and
    Black-breasted Red Game.

  PLATE II.                                                           93

    White and Buff Cochin-China--Malay Cock--Light and Dark
    Brahma-Pootras.

  PLATE III.                                                         115

    Golden-pencilled and Silver-spangled Hamburgs--Black
    Spanish.

  PLATE IV.                                                          121

    White-crested Black Polish--Golden and Silver-spangled
    Polish.

  PLATE V.                                                           124

    White and Black Bantams--Gold and Silver-laced or Sebright
    Bantams--Game Bantams.

  PLATE VI.                                                          128

    French: Houdans--La Fleche Cock--Creve-Coeur Hen.

  PLATE VII.                                                         132

    Turkey--Guinea-Fowls.

  PLATE VIII.                                                        142

    Toulouse Goose--Rouen Ducks--Aylesbury Ducks.

PROFITABLE AND ORNAMENTAL POULTRY.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

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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.

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