The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
The hardy, multipurpose Dominique chickens that came to the New World with the Pilgrims and later traveled in pioneer saddlebags to help settle the West were once too numerous to count; by 1990 a mere 500 hens survived. This is but a single example of the diminishing diversity of farm animals: half...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2002
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| Series: | Yale Agrarian Studies Ser
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