Goat Husbandry / by David Mackenzie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackenzie, David, 1916-1969.

Contributor:

Goodwin, Ruth, reviser, editor.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goat farming.

Goat farming--Great Britain.

Goats.

Goats--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Medical Subjects:

Goats.

Local Subjects:

Goats--Great Britain.

Goats.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

xvi, [2], 334 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition / revised and edited by Ruth Goodwin.

Place of Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, 1993.

Contents:

The place of the goat in world agriculture

The goat in Great Britain

The prospects for goat farming

The control of goats

Housing

The principles of goat feeding

Feeding practice

Selection of breeding stock

Breeding problems

Disease and accident

Milking practice and dairy produce

The universal foster mother

Kid-meat

Leather and fleece

Cropping for goats

Goat-farming systems

The export and import trade

Harness goats

Cows'-milk allergy and goats' milk

Appendix 1: Recorded milk yields of the dairy breeds

Appendix 2: Addresses of goat organizations in the UK and overseas

Appendix 3: British suppliers of requisites for goatkeeping and useful addresses.

Notes:

Cover illustration by Matilda Harrison.

Contains prefaces to First, Second, Fourth and Fifth Editions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and 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.

ISBN:

0571165958 (paper) :

9780571165957

OCLC:

28475095

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