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Poultry Production, by William Adams Lippincott Late Professor of Poultry Husbandry, University of California, Berkeley, California. Illustrated with 236 engravings and 2 colored plates.
LIBRA - Blank Collection SF487 .L7 1946
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lippincott, William Adams, 1882-1931.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poultry.
- Poultry--Breeding.
- Medical Subjects:
- Poultry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- [2], 440 pages, [2] leaves of unnumbered color plates illustrations, maps 24 cm
- Edition:
- Seventh Edition, thoroughly revised by Leslie E. Card Professor of Poultry Husbandry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1946.
- Contents:
- The Poultry Industry
- The Breeds of Chickens
- The Structure of the Chicken and the Formation of an Egg
- Principles of Poultry Breeding
- Selection and Improvement
- Incubation
- Brooding and Rearing
- Houses and Equipment
- The Principles of Poultry Nutrition
- The Feeds
- The Nutrient Requirements of Poultry
- Management Practices
- Controlling Diseases and Parasites
- Marketing Poultry Products
- The Business of Poultry Keeping.
- Notes:
- "The seventh edition ... has been entirely reset, and several chapters have been completely rewritten in order to bring the material up to date. A new chapter on the control of diseases and parasites has been added. The principal objective has been to make it a book that will be helpful to students of the subject and to others who seek an understanding of the science and practice of poultry husbandry."--Page 3.
- "Selected references" at end of each chapter.
- 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.
- Kislak copy has embossed stamp "AL Kandarian Collection Culinary Arts" on title page.
- Kislak copy is "December, 1947" reprint.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lippincott, William Adams, 1882-1931. Poultry production.
- OCLC:
- 1592000
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