Just published, imperial Svo, handsomely hound in cloth, bevelled boards, gilt edges, price 18 



THE F 



LTRY BOOK 



COMPRISING THE 



BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF PROFITABLE AND ORNAMENTAL POULTRY; 



TO WHICH IS ADDED 



"THE STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE IN EXHIBITION BIRDS," 



AUTHORIZED BT THE POULTRY CLUB. 

 BY 



W. B. TEGETMEIER, F.Z.S., 



AUTHOR OF "PROFITABLE POULTRY," "POULTRY CONSIDFRED AS AGRICULTURAL STOCK," EDITOR OF "STANDARD 

 OF EXCELLENCE LN EXHIBITION BIRDS," AND OF THE POULTRY DEPARTMENT OF " THE FIELD," ETC. 



With Thiktt Full-page Illustrations of the different varieties, drawn from the Life by Haeeison 

 Weie, and printed in Colours by Leighton Beothees ; and numerous Woodcuts. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



Saturday Review, August 3.— Third Notice. 

 " For Mr. Tegetmeier's ' Poultry Book.' its compre- 

 hensiveness, research, philosophic treatment, and 

 charms of anecdote and description, the fittest expres- 

 sion of praise we can find is, that it is a book no 

 country gentleman ought to he without." 



Saturday Review, July 20. — Second Notice. 

 "A volume which is invaluable as a book of refer- 

 ence, and of multifarious research, although, from its 

 size and exhaustive character, less quotable than 

 smaller works." 



Saturday Review, June 15. 

 ' Invaluable for reference." 



-First Notice. 



Athenaeum, August 24. 

 " The ' Poultry Book ' is edited by the Editor of ' The 

 Standard of Excellence,' and supplied with information 

 by breeders of renown and by judges whose decrees 

 are final in the prize shows. . . . The best adapted 

 for exhibitors." 



Hark Lane Express, June 24. 

 " The work is one of the best and most elaborate 

 on the subject of Poultry-keeping that has ever been 

 published, and leaves little or nothing for any future 

 writer to add to it." 



Morning Post, September 3. 

 " The most complete work which has yet been 

 published. It is impossible to give an adequate idea 

 of the amount of information contained in this work. 

 . . . . Essentially practical and useful." 



Sporting Gazette, Septemher 21. 

 " Mr. Tegetmeier, himself an accomplished naturalist 

 and acknowledged authority on the subject of poultry, 

 has been aided by contributions from the most eminent 

 breeders of the different varieties of profitable and 

 ornamental poultry, so as to render this treatise, for 

 fulness of detail and the practical character of the 

 information imparled, more reliable and complete than 

 any work on the subject previously published." 



Morning Star, June 3. 

 " We have all heard, and often, of the fame of 

 Mr. Tegetmeier as a high authority in the breeding and 

 management of Poultry, but had not anticipated till 

 now in how gorgeous a volume the result of his ex- 

 perience would be preserved to the world 



Its greater value will consist in the mass of really 

 practical information on Poultry management." 



Standard, July 22. 



" A grand volume, profusely and admirably illus- 

 trated So well is Mr. Tegetmeier known 



in connection with the subject of Poultry, that any 

 commendation of the text of works edited by him is 

 needless." 



Scotsman, August 10. 



" So superb a work as this on the subject of Poultry 

 is a sort of sign of the times. . . . An admirable 

 one of its class ; as useful as it is most certainly 

 ornamental." 



Sportsman August 1. 



"A valuable acquisition, for not only are the more 

 ornamental breeds described with accuracy, but great 

 attention has been paid to the practical details of 

 Poultry-keeping. . . . Tfe most approved modes 

 of fattening, as followed in England, are given, and 

 the methods adopted in France to produce the cele- 

 brated fat capons are described at length." 



The Field, June 2. 

 " Mr. Tegetmeier has had recourse to the most 

 eminent authorities on each particular breed." 



Land and Water, June 15. 

 " We cannot dismiss the book without saying that 

 whilst it will be an attractive one on the drawing-room 

 table, it is essential among the books of the farm, and 

 to those who keep poultry either for home pleasure or 

 for public exhibition." 



Illustrated Times. March 17. 

 " The fruits of years of thought, experiment, and 

 observation are embodied in the work " 



LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE. 

 NEW YORK: 410, BROOME STREET. 



