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 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

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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Until of late years the breeding of poultry has been almost generally neglected in Great Britain. Any kind of mongrel fowl would do for a farmer's stock, although he fully appreciated the importance of breeding in respect of his cattle and pigs, and the value of improved seeds. Had he thought at all upon the subject, it must have occurred to him that poultry might be improved by breeding from select specimens as much as any other kind of live stock. The French produce a very much greater number of fowls and far finer ones for market than we do. In France, Bonington Mowbray observes, "poultry forms an important part of the live stock of the farmer, and the poultry-yards supply more animal food to the great mass of the community than the butchers' shops"; while in Egypt, and some other countries of the East, from time immemorial, vast numbers of chickens have been hatched in ovens by artificial heat to supply the demand for poultry; but in Great Britain poultry-keeping has been generally neglected, eggs are dear, and all kinds of poultry so great a luxury that the lower classes and a large number of the middle seldom, if ever, taste it, except perhaps once a year in the form of a Christmas goose, while hundreds of thousands cannot afford even this. It is computed that a million of eggs are eaten daily in London and its suburbs alone; yet this vast number only gives one egg to every three mouths.

GENRE
Wissenschaft und Natur
ERSCHIENEN
2012
1. April
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
178
Seiten
VERLAG
Library of Alexandria
GRÖSSE
531,8
 kB

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