A treatise on domestic poultry, pigeons and rabbits, with a practical account of the Egyptian method of hatching eggs by artificial heat; and all the needful particulars relative to breeding, rearing, and management ... / By Bonington Moubray, Esq. [pseud. i.e. J. Lawrence].

  • Lawrence, John, 1753-1839.
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on domestic poultry, pigeons and rabbits, with a practical account of the Egyptian method of hatching eggs by artificial heat; and all the needful particulars relative to breeding, rearing, and management ... / By Bonington Moubray, Esq. [pseud. i.e. J. Lawrence]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lias never been in this country, a favou- rite or prevailing article of diet, with the lower or middling orders of the people.; thence our farmers, whether little or great, could never be more profitably employed, ■whether for themselves or the community, than in the production of the more sub- stantial articles of food: in the mean time, the demand for the luxury of poultry never fails to be satisfied to the utmost ex- tent, and a decline of price in that ar- ticle, will be the natural consequence of, a .general decline in the meat mar kef.