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Folksy and informative, this title offers timeless tips on the effective and humane treatment and training of horses and detailed descriptions of all the major breeds of horse.

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Includes: the benefits of keeping bees; how to care for bees through the winter; the marketing and selling of wax- and honey-based products; what bee-friendly plants to raise in the garden; and how to introduce a new queen to the hive.

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"The only just and true way for an honorable and manly man is to grow them, and let everybody about the place have all he can eat. For the berry comes from the garden to the table in tempting and presentable shape, fit to grace the table of a king," writes Jacob Biggle in theBiggle Berry Book, which was first published in 1894.

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When Biggle Garden Book was first published in 1908, most people were in the habit of raising their own food and flowers. Jacob Biggle felt that a gardener's success had to do with willpower and passion rather than acreage.

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"The first thing to do about starting an orchard is to plan for it," Jacob Biggle, the author of this handy little book, advises. "Put on your thinking-cap, study into the matter, and do not jump in the dark. A slow start is much better than a poor start.'

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Focuses on the management of poultry. This title features more than three hundred million chickens and thirty million other domesticated fowl in the United States.

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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.