88 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



profitable and ornamental poultry (each variety 

 being dealt with by a specialist breeder) appeared 

 in an enlarged form in 1867. And here it may 

 perhaps prove convenient if I give some particulars 

 of the rest of Tegetmeier's publications on the 

 domestic fowl. 



In 1865 he edited for the Poultry Club The 

 Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Poultry, 

 which was reprinted with additions and with 

 the American Standard, in 1874. A new edition 

 of the Poultry Book, which was illustrated by 

 Harrison Weir, was brought out, enlarged, in 

 1873. One of his best-known books, Poultry for 

 the Table and Market versus Fancy Fowls, with 

 an Exposition of the Fallacies of Poultry Farming, 

 was published by Horace Cox, of the Field office, 

 in 1892, and was followed the next year bv a 

 new and enlarged edition. From this book some 

 appropriate chapters were taken and remodelled 

 as The Cottager's Manual of Poultry-keeping, in 

 1893, and re-published in 1895 and 1898. 

 Tegetmeier also wrote the article " Poultry " in 

 the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

 Among other works on the subject were Rearing and 

 Fattening Market and Table Poultry, in 1855, and 

 the article in the Ibis on " The Principal Modern 

 Breeds of Domestic Fowl," which was reprinted, 

 but for private circulation only, in 1890. 



It was during the 'fifties that Tegetmeier began 

 his career as a judge of poultry at the leading 



