RSPCA Guide to Garden Wildlife

Science & Math

PORTER, Val

Biological Sciences

HarperCollins, Publishers

The absolute best in bovine beauties! An award-winning photographer captures cows on the catwalk at their most manicured moment. Beautiful Cows is the perfect book for anyone from farmers and committed cow connoisseurs looking to "beef up" their book collection to lovers of fine photography and natural beauty. An inspired gift, this is also the ideal conversation piece for any gathering--just leave it on the coffee table and prepare to milk the applause!

Beautiful Cows

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

St. Martin's: Griffin

English Villagers: Life in the Countryside 1850-1939

History

PHILIP\'S

Practical rare breeds

Literature & Fiction

Pelham Books

A practical book for people who wish to keep fowl, either for produce or ornamental reasons. The fowl studied include chickens, geese, turkeys, ducks, game birds, pigeons, waterfowl and ornamentals.

Domestic and ornamental fowl

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Not so long ago, there were local British pigs of every size, colour and shape. Over the centuries different localities had developed their own tastes in what their pigs should look like - often coloured pigs in the Midlands, black nes in the southern counties and white ones in the north - and every county had its own 'breed'. But as urban populations exploded and needed to be fed from the countryside, pig breeders became selective and scientific, concentrating on productivity. Today most of those colourful old local breeds have disappeared; now only three or four highly commercial breeds and a handful of rare breeds remain of that once splendid diversity.

British Pigs (Shire Album S.)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Shire Pubns

Since the eighteenth century, British cattle breeds have spread worldwide and have made the names of several counties famous in distant lands. Yet some of those breeds have become extinct and many others have become so rare in their own country that they are in danger of disappearing. In the hope of awakening enthusiasm for the diversity that still makes British cattle so interesting, this book describes all the existing breeds and many of those that have already gone. Diversity is crucial; cattle provide meat, milk, leather, muscle power and a wide range of by-products, and each breed was developed to meet specific demands. Most were perfectly suited to the environment in which they first developed - be it moorland, island, hill country or lush lowland. Agricultural practices and the markets that farmers serve change, but there will always be a place for good breeds that can meet different needs.

British Cattle (Shire Library)

Shire

Not so long ago, there were local British pigs of every size, color and shape. Over the centuries different localities had developed their own tastes in what their pigs should look like - often colored pigs in the Midlands, black ones in the southern countries and white ones in the north - and every county had its own 'breed'. But as urban populations exploded and needed to be fed from the countryside, pig breeders became selective and scientific, concentrating on productivity. Today most of the colorful old local breeds have disappeared; now only three of four highly commercial breeds and a handful of rare breeds remain of that once splendid diversity. This book describes these breeds and how they developed; it also looks at some of the evocatively named extinct pigs and at foreign breeds now being imported.

British Pigs (Shire Library)

Europe

Guinness Horse Tails

Guinness World Records Ltd.

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