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Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps
Jan 12, 2025 12:50 AM

Author:Alan Thompson,Claude Goodchild

Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps

First issued in 1941, when the national crisis made it essential for every scrap of kitchen waste and spare time to be used for increasing the nation's food resources, this book enabled the meagre official wartime rations to be supplemented in thousands of homes by a regular supply of eggs and meat, at a minimum of trouble and expense.

It now reappears, in response to many requests, to play its part in the hardly less urgent food-production drive of peacetime. Everything that the small-scale raiser of rabbits or of poultry, whether for egg-production or for table use, needs to know is here: buying, housing, feeding, breeding, diseases, are all fully dealt with by experts, the instructions being given in simple and practical language for the beginner.

Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps was originally reissued after the war, in 1949. Here it is once again, a facsimilie edition with all the delightful original illustrations and advice to keep your chickens and rabbits happy, whether they be in a city garden or roaming in a farm yard.

Reviews

An immediate classic.

—— E. O. Wilson

Marvellous and comprehensive.

—— Nature

A wonderful book.

—— Sunday Telegraph

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—— Sunday Times

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—— Matt Ridley

An immediate classic

—— E. O. Wilson

A terrific story of competitive bickering, intrigue, damaged reputations and unacknowledged contributions- It is also wonderfully written- an ideal primer

—— Irish Times

Marvellous and comprehensive

—— Nature

There are few better introductions than this

—— New Scientist

A wonderful book- [which] bears favourable comparison with Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man.

—— Sunday Telegraph

James Watson-is one of the greatest living biologists- [His] new book is an important event, for he is a scintillating writer

—— John Cornwell , The Sunday Times

James Watson has been an eyewitness to each revolution in molecular biology, from the double helix to the genome. He sees further and clearer than anybody else in the field. Give this fabulously good book to anybody who wants to understand what all the excitement is about

—— Matt Ridley

Gabriel Weston's story succeeds better than any I have known...more riveting and thought-provoking than any fiction

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Glinting like a tray of instruments, her prose is satisfyingly precise

—— Victoria Segal , The Guardian

A curiously thrilling read, written with an elegance heightened by its clarity and economy

—— Elizabeth Day , Observer

A valuable and unflinching account, since it so clearly tells the truth

—— Christopher Hart , The Sunday Times

This book is mesmerising

—— William Leith , Scotsman

Her description of the struggle to remain individual and hence moral is her real achievement. This, to me, is what female writing has to do, and she does it with style and humour and beauty

—— Rachel Cusk

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—— Contours magazine
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