Preface 



This checklist identifies some 2000 editions of books and pamphlets 

 written in English on the keeping of domesticated birds for economic 

 purposes. It is a compilation of the holdings on this subject in the Albert 

 R. Mann Library of the New York State Colleges of Agriculture and 

 Home Economics at Cornell University, the New York Public Library, 

 and the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



The user of this bibliography may also wish to refer to some of the 

 earlier works of similar character listed on page 4. No attempt has been 

 made to incorporate in this work publications listed in such earlier 

 bibliographies, that do not appear in the three libraries upon which this 

 work is based. 



Not included are theses, microfilms, periodicals, and serials. Also 

 eliminated are lesson plans from "poultry schools"; proceedings of poultry 

 congresses; premium lists and programs of poultry exhibitions; govern- 

 ment documents (state and national); and publications of colleges, uni- 

 versities, and commercial companies. Books on game birds, on ornamental 

 and cage birds, and on cock fighting are also excluded. 



Theses presented for advanced degrees at land-grant colleges and uni- 

 versities in the United States from 1896 to 1950 were indexed in Publica- 

 tion Number One of the James E. Rice Memorial Poultry Library. It is 

 hoped that categories of poultry literature omitted from these first two 

 Publications may be dealt with in future issues of the series. 



Many of the books included in this bibliography were printed during 

 the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when publishers often did not 

 differentiate between editions and printings. To avoid ambiguity, edition 

 numbers are usually omitted in favor of copyright dates, or in their 

 absence, publishers' dates. When a book is not dated but does include 

 an edition number, the latter is used. This is especially true of British 

 publications. 



The New York Public Library collected poultry literature intensively 

 only until the early 1930's. Information about the collections of the New 

 York Public Library and the Library of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture was obtained from photostats of their subject catalog cards 

 earlv in 1956. Mann Library holdings are included approximately to 

 June 1959. 



Each title was checked with the Library of Congress Catalog of 

 Printed Cards and its several continuations. As a result, some editions 

 are listed which are not in the collections of the three libraries noted 

 above. Works in the Mann Library are marked with an asterisk. It is 

 interested in acquiring titles it lacks, whether or not they appear in this 

 checklist. 



