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The Pig: breeding, rearing, and marketing, by Sanders Spencer.
LIBRA - Blank Collection SF396.9 .S64 1919
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Sanders, 1840-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swine.
- Swine--Breeding.
- Swine--Marketing.
- Medical Subjects:
- Swine.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 4 preliminary leaves, 13-184, [4] pages, [15] pages of plates illustrations 19 cm
- 8vo.
- Place of Publication:
- London, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1919.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Non-Pedigree Pigs
- Pure Breeds (with Standard Descriptions and Scales of Points)
- Cross-Bred Pigs
- Dentition and Age of Pigs
- Selection of the Boar
- Selection of the Sow
- The Sow's Udder
- Mating the Young Sow
- The Farrowing Sow
- Weaning Pigs
- The Rearing of Young Pigs
- Housing of Pigs
- The Exhibition of Pigs
- Present and Future Pig-Keeping
- Pig-Fattening
- A Pig Calendar
- Diseases of the Pig
- The Curing of Pork.
- Notes:
- Advertisements printed on front and back pastedowns and free endpapers.
- Publisher's advertisements: [5] pages at end.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Spencer, Sanders, b. 1840. Pig.
- OCLC:
- 18735857
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