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This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old origin......more
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Swine Production In The South is a comprehensive guide to the production of swine in the southern region of the United S......more
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For critical care of laboratory rodents, there is a scarcity of sources for comprehensive, feasible, and response-orient......more
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This volume reviews, for the first time, the broad range of issues that affect the welfare of commercially farmed ratite......more
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A current, comprehensive issue on metabolic diseases for the food animal practitioner. Topics include obesity and insuli......more
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An avid sportsman, Martin Anderson first visited Kenya on a hunting safari in 1960, three years before the country gaine......more
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This new edition of Rabbit Production has been fully updated throughout. Mainly concerning rabbits bred for meat and fur......more
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First published in 1964, Ruth Harrison s book Animal Machines had a profound and lasting impact on world agriculture, pu......more
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