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THE 



Cottager's Manual of Poultry Keeping. 



BEING CHAPTERS FROM THE THIRD EDITION OF 



W. B. TEGETMEIER'S 



Poultry for the Table and lYIarket 



versus 



ipjLnsrcY :fo"v\;^il,s. 



This pamphlet consists of the practical chapters on Feeding 

 Fowls, Hatching and Rearing Chickens for the Market, and the 

 Production of Eggs. On Fattening, Trussing, and Showing Dead 

 Poultry, and on Improving Ordinary Stock, from the last edition 

 of Mr. Tegetmeier's well-known work on Table and Market Poultry. 



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Croivn Svo., cloth. Is. ; by post, Is. 'M. 



HOUSE SPARROW, 



Considered in Relation to Agriculture and Gardening, with Practical 

 Suggestions for Lessening its Numhers. 



By W. B. TEGETMEIER, F.Z.S., & Miss ELEANOR i ORMEROD, F.E.S. 



CONTENTS. 



The Natural History of the Spai-row. Opinions of Naturalists and 

 Agriculturists regarding its injurious action, including those of 

 Lord Lilford, Yarrell, Professor Newton, Booth, &c. Consideration 

 of the most effectual means of diminishing the Sparrow plague. 

 Eules for the formation of Sparrow Clubs. 



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 1899. 



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