The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock : embracing horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry, including departments on dogs and bees; being also a complete stock doctor; combining the effective method of object teaching with written instruction. Giving all the facts concerning the various breeds; characteristics and excellences of each. Best methods of breeding, training, sheltering, stable management, and general care, with specific directions how to buy and how to sell, including careful and illustrated analyses of the points of domestic animals, with all the diseases to which they are subject, how to know them, the causes, prevention and cure -- given in plain, simple language, free from technicalities, but scientifically correct, and prescribing remedies readily obtained and easily applied. Designed for the successful and profitable use of the American farmer and stock owner /
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| Language: | English |
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St. Louis, Mo. :
N.D. Thompson & Co., publishers, 520, 522, and 524 Pine Street,
1882.
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| Item Description: | Includes index. Color plates included in pagination bound in before every "Teeth of the horse: chart for accurately telling the age from six months to twenty-nine years" - folded chart bound in between pages 98-99; 55 x 90 cm folded to 22 x 14 cm. TMV copy lacks chart of teeth of cattle bound between pages 514-515. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiv, 1156 pages : illustrations, color plates, portraits, charts ; 26 cm |