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• Livestock -- Breeds
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• Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (1991), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Cattle of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of Cattle of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: "The Field" Office, 1875), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cattle, Sheep and Pigs of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: H. Cox, "The Field" Office, 1887), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Family Facts (Webster City, IA: F. Hahne Printing Co., c1956), by Georgianna Hahne Amsden (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Hereford Journal (partial serial archives)

• The Rising Dairy Breed: The French-Canadian Cattle, Also Known as the "Canadian" Breed, and as the "Quebec Jerseys" (ca. 1909)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Dairy Cow: A Monograph on the Ayrshire Breed of Cattle (Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1875), by E. Lewis Sturtevant and J. Bevier Sturtevant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Cornell

• History of Randleigh Farm (Lockport, NY: W.R. Kenan, Jr., c1935), by William Rand Kenan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Justin Morgan, Founder of His Race: The Romantic History of a Horse (New York: The Shakespeare Press, 1911), by Eleanor Waring Burnham, illust. by Roger Noble Burnham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gold and Silver Sebright Bantams (London: Feathered World, ca. 1905), by R. Wiseman-Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise Upon the Mating, Rearing and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs (Hartford: H. H. Stoddard, 1886), by L. Frank Baum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hamburghs Up to Date (third edition, ca. 1907), by Charles Holt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Plymouth Rocks, Barred, White, and Buff: Their Practical Qualities, the Standard Requirements, How to Judge Them, How to Breed and Mate for Best Results (Quincy, IL: Reliable Poultry Journal Pub. Co., c1906) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Cattle, Sheep and Pigs of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: H. Cox, "The Field" Office, 1887), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nouveau Traité sur la Laine et sur les Moutons (bound with some related works; in French; Paris: Mme. Huzard et al, 1824), by Gaspard Perrault de Jotemps, Fabry, and Felix Girod de l'Ain
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Cattle, Sheep and Pigs of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: H. Cox, "The Field" Office, 1887), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• The Story of a Persian Cat (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Jennie Chappell (page images at Florida)

• Rosehead (c2014), by Ksenia Anske (multiple formats with commentary at kseniaanske.com)

• Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump, and His Wonderful Dog Bulger (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1890), by Ingersoll Lockwood, illust. by George Wharton Edwards
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Mouse in the Mountain (originally published 1943), by Norbert Davis (HTML with commentary at manybooks.net)

• Thirty Years With Fighting Dogs (Washington: Jack Jones, 1935), by George C. Armitage (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Pit Bull Terrier: A Complete Treatise on the Breed Covering the Entire Field, Useful and Valuable to All Owners of an American Pit Bull Terrier (Sacramento: The News Publishing Co., 1936), by Joseph L. Colby (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Boston Terrier: Its History, Points, Breeding, Rearing, Training, and Care, Together with Several Instructive Chapters on Management and Diseases of Dogs From a Common Sense View (new and revised edition; New York: Field and Fancy Pub. Co., c1906), by J. Varnum Mott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Toy Dogs and Their Ancestors: Including the History and Management of Toy Spaniels, Pekingese, Japanese and Pomeranians (New York: D. Appleton and company, 1911), by Lady Wentworth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Long-Faced Tumblers and All About Them: A Practical Monograph Dealing with the Breeding and Exhibiting of All the Long-Faced Tumbler Pigeons, by C. A. House (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Stockman's Handbook (third edition; Danville, IL: Interstate Printers and Publishers, 1962), by M. Eugene Ensminger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (1991), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Predicting Feed Intake of Food-Producing Animals (1987), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Principles of Breeding: or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws Involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Co., 1861), by S. L. Goodale (page images at Cornell)
• Zootechnie Générale: Production et Amélioration du Bétail (in French; Paris: J.-B. Bailliere et fils, 1915), by Paul Diffloth, contrib. by Paul Regnard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Live-Stock of the Farm (second edition; London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1875), by R. Oliphant Pringle (page images at Cornell)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• California Range Land: An Historico-Ecological Study of the Range Resource of California (Sacramento: California Division of Forestry, Dept. of Natural Resources, 1957), by L. T. Burcham (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Global Benefits Of Eating Less Meat (Hampshire, UK: Compassion in World Farming Trust, 2004), by Mark Gold, contrib. by Jonathon Porritt (PDF in the UK)

• The Cattle, Sheep and Pigs of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: H. Cox, "The Field" Office, 1887), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Farmer's New and Universal Handbook (page images at MOA)

• Hillside Farm (ca. 1907), by Z. A. R. Nesbit, illust. by E. B. S. Montefiore and F. S. Silver (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Archivos de Zootecnia (partial serial archives)
• The National Stockman and Farmer (partial serial archives)

• Po-Bol'shevistski Vypolnim Reshenie Partii i Pravitel'stva o Razvitii Obshchestvennogo Zhivotnovodstva v Kolkhozakh (in Russian; 1939), by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Beef Bonanza, or, How to Get Rich on the Plains: Being a Description of Cattle-Growing, Sheep-Farming, Horse-Raising, and Dairying in the West (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1885), by James S. Brisbin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effect of Environment on Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals (1981), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Predicting Feed Intake of Food-Producing Animals (1987), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Nutritional Energetics of Domestic Animals and Glossary of Energy Terms, by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Undernutrition in Steers: Its Relation to Metabolism, Digestion, and Subsequent Realimentation (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #324; 1923), by Francis Gano Benedict and Ernest G. Ritzman
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Artificial Insemination to Cloning: Tracing 50 Years of Research (c1998), by Robert H. Foote (PDF at Cornell)
• Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research (1989), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Dual-Purpose Cattle (first edition; Springfield, MO: Roberts Bros., 1953), by Claude H. Hinman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cattle, Sheep and Deer (fifth edition; London: Steel and Jones, 1872), by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald (page images at Cornell)
• Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes, Exhibiting All the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos (London: G. Biggs, 1851), by George Vasey
  • page images at Cornell
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Animal Management (1908; reprinted 1916), by Great Britain War Office Veterinary Department (page images at HathiTrust)

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