Brown, Edward POULTRY BREEDING AND PRODUCTION 1st, 1929

Brown, Edward "Poultry Breeding and Production" Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1st edition, 1929. 2 separate volumes. Hardcover in very good condition, has been recased professionally, blue half cloth,  864 pages. All plates have been stamped with a library rubber stamp, see scan as an example, scan shows frontispiece - Old English Game Fowls - Streaky Breasted Orange Reds.   

Volume One: Races of Domestic Fowl, 4 colour plates and many black and white plates, two pages have selotape on small tears. Contents: Origin History of Domestic Poultry, Asiatic Races of Fowls, Italian Races of Fowls, French Races of Fowls, Spanish Races of Fowls, Belgian Races of Fowls, Dutch Races of Fowls, German Races of Fowls, Other European Races of Fowls, British Races of Fowls, American Races of Fowls, Races of Bantams, Evolution and Classification of Breeds, Laws of Breeding and Their Application, External Characters of Poultry and Their Values.

Volume Two: The Lines of Development. First two title pages are photocopies of the original. Three colour plates (coloured frontispiece is missing) and many black and white plates. Three pages have selotape on tears. Some minor stains of a few pages.  Contents: The Lines of Development, Climate and Soil, Poultry Husbandry, Poultry on Small Holdings and Allotments, Breeding plants and farms, Intensive and semi-intensive poultry husbandry, Principles and methods of housing, Management of breeding stock, The feeding of poultry, Formation of the egg and chicken, Hatching - natural and artificial, Rearing - natural and artificial, Egg production and preservation, production of table poultry, raced of domestic ducks, The duck industry, Races of domestic geese, Goose farming, Races of Domestic Turkeys, turkeys as farm stock, disposal of produce, The business aspect of poultry husbandry, diseases of poultry.