Biggle Swine Book (eBook)

Much Old and More New Hog Knowledge, Arranged in Alternate Streaks of Fat and Lean

Jacob Biggle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
144 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62873-438-6 (ISBN)

Infos

When Jacob Biggle first published TheBiggle 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 history when home animal husbandry was giving way to more industrialized meat production. Nevertheless, Jacob Biggle continued to offer guidance to the small-scale farmer on all manner of livestock issues, centered around the proper breeding, feeding, and care of pigs. His book includes valuable instructions on:What to do at farrowing timeConstructing the piggery and styKeeping on top of the manure pileButchering and curing meatsProtecting your animals from various pig ailmentsIllustrated with photographs, engravings, and line drawings throughout of all things pig-related, this book is a glimpse into a bygone era when sows and their litters had a place on every farm, and people knew exactly where their bacon came from.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: America • backyard • Bacon • berkshires • boar • books on backyards • books on bacons books on berkshires • books on boars • books on breeds • books on cattle • books on chester • books on country wisdoms • books on dockings • books on exports • books on hobbies • books on husbandries • books on jerseys • books on meats • books on paddocks • books on pastures • books on profits • books on raising animals • books on raising chickens • books on rinds • books on snouts • books on storey • books on suffolk • books on swine • books on tracks • books on up- • books on warren • books on zoos • breed books on piglets • breeders • Breeding • Breeds • butchering • cattle • Cheshire • Chester • country wisdom • dished • Docking • England • Export • Farmers • feed • Feeding • Hobby • hogs • Husbandry • Inspection • jerseys • livestock farming • lopping • Magee • meats • New York • Paddock • pasture • Piglets • pork • Profit • raise chickens • raise pigs • raising animals • Raising chickens • raising pigs • Rind • Small-Scale • snout • sows • storey • Suffolk • Sustainable • Swine • Tracks • United States • up-to-date information • valuations • warren • zoo
• ISBN-10: 1-62873-438-8 / 1628734388
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62873-438-6 / 9781628734386