MACSELF, A.J. Fowls For Profit. [c.1920s]. Very Scarce

MACSELF, A.J. (1878-1952). Fowls For Profit. A Practical Guide to every Phase of Profitable Poultry Keeping, including Incubator Management. 

“With the rapidly increasing number of people who are taking up poultry-keeping as part of a business, and the still larger number of householders who are keeping a few fowls for the purpose of obtaining fresh eggs for home use, the quest for information grows ever keener…”

Monochrome photographic plates, all present- as called for. Illustrations within the text. 

Interior: Scattered light spotting, scattered foxing throughout, browning to pages, some light soiling in places throughout, wear with loss to one letter on a caption on a plate.

Exterior: Publisher’s orange pictorial wrappers. (Wear to wrappers, tearing at top margin at spine, chipping and wear to spine, staining to covers).

Chapters include: Hatching and Rearing Chicks, Eggs- The Sale of, Utility Fowls For The Householder, Table Fowls, Popular and Useful Breeds.

8vo. London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, [no date c. 1920s]. 

Please note that the advice given within this book is of its time and therefore might not be accurate today!

Very Scarce.

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