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Biggle's Swine Book
Jacob Biggle
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Description for Biggle's Swine Book
Hardcover. Captures the moment in American history when home animal husbandry was giving way to more industrialized meat production. This book offers guidance to the small-scale farmer on all manner of livestock issues, centered around the proper breeding, feeding, and care of pigs. Num Pages: 144 pages, 40 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: TVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 126 x 17. Weight in Grams: 312.
When Jacob Biggle first published The Biggle Swine Book in 1898, hog husbandry was undergoing major changes. New feeding methods had come into vogue, new breeds of hogs had been developed, and significant progress had been made in curbing swine-borne epidemics. Even the public perception of pigs as filthy creatures wallowing up to their knees in mud had brightened, and pigs were accorded a modicum of respect. But with the onset of railroad development across the United States, the backyard pig farmer started losing ground to slaughterhouses and large processing plants.
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When Jacob Biggle first published The Biggle Swine Book in 1898, hog husbandry was undergoing major changes. New feeding methods had come into vogue, new breeds of hogs had been developed, and significant progress had been made in curbing swine-borne epidemics. Even the public perception of pigs as filthy creatures wallowing up to their knees in mud had brightened, and pigs were accorded a modicum of respect. But with the onset of railroad development across the United States, the backyard pig farmer started losing ground to slaughterhouses and large processing plants.
The Biggle Swine Book captures this moment in American ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781626361485
SKU
V9781626361485
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Jacob Biggle
Jacob Biggle was the author of a series of books known as the Biggle Farm Library published at the turn of the twentieth century. "The pig, the rent payer of Europe, the mortgage lifter of America." -Jacob Biggle
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