The Poultry Record: Devoted to the Breeding and Management of Poultry for Pleasure and Profit.

Complete run of the Poultry Record,a business publication devoted exclusively to poultry interests.19th century breeding, feeding, housing, buying, selling, etc., if it's about poultry, it's all there. 36 monthly numbers bound in one volume, from Jan. 1873 thru Dec., 1875. Apparently merged into The American Poultry Jpurnal and Record, Chicago, in 1876. OCLC locates two, at The Huntington Library and at Rutgers University. Apprx 570 pp total, each year preceeded by table of contents. Each of the 36 numbers has a frontis wood engraving depicting one or more breed of chicken or other fowl. Several pp of interesting ads, some illustrated, at the back of each issue including a breeder's directory. Apparently no ads accepted from non-poultry sources, strictly all-business. Contents are clean with no foxing, binding is poor, useable with care but better to put it in new binding.