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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter	Holly Robinson	"What kind of Navy officer sits on his ship in the middle of the Mediterranean dreaming of gerbils?"That's the question that Holly Robinson sets out to answer in this warm and rollicking memoir of li…	OL13691572W
Our first pony	Marguerite Henry	Twin brothers, Justin and Joey, buy and raise a pony of their own but when the pony foals they find themselves responsible for the care of a whole new pony family.	OL1480359W
Corn and corn improvement	G. F. Sprague	xvi, 774 p. : 24 cm	OL1485785W
Crazy about German shepherds	Brent K. Ashabranner	A girl describes her experiences opening her own kennel in the Blue Ridge Mountains to raise German shepherds.	OL15001017W
Charlie Muffin's miracle mouse	Dick King-Smith	After many unsuccessful attempts, lonely mouse farmer Charlie Muffin finally breeds a green mouse, finds true love, and wins the Best of Show at the Grand Mouse Championship Show.	OL17315784W
Blessed are the brood mares	M. Phyllis Lose,Phyllis M. Lose	When <em>Blessed Are the Brood Mares</em> was published in 1978, no other single source existed that contained such a wide range of information on the care of the breeding mare from mating, through g…	OL1851612W
Resistance to viral diseases of vegetables	Molly Kyle	278 p. : 24 cm	OL18957214W
The red canary	Tim Birkhead	"The Red Canary follows the compelling quest to turn the green canary red. While the idea of genetically modified animals seems like a recent concept, it was first throught up in the 1920s by Hans Du…	OL19978080W
Secrets of the Tulip Sisters	Susan Mallery	Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine - up at dawn, off to work, lather, rinse, repeat. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings: Griffith Burnett …	OL20059214W
The gerbil farmer's daughter	Holly Robinson	Robinson tells the warm and comic story of her father's peculiar obsession as a gerbil farmer, and of her own life growing up as one of the "employees" in his oddly thriving, sometimes exasperating, …	OL20614652W
Inheritance of traits	Jen Green	"This fun book about dog shows teaches the core curriculum topic of inheritance."--	OL23291921W
Poultry for profit and pleasure	R. Alders	Poultry are the most benign farm stock; easy to manage, resilient and relatively productive under the most varied conditions. Anyone with a small patch of land can keep poultry for their eggs and mea…	OL24748728W
Forest tree improvement	United States. Bureau of Land Management. Oregon State Office	The Bureau of Land Management initiated a tree improvement program in 1965 to increase the volume of wood production from 1.9 million acres of public forests in western Oregon. The plan called for 2…	OL24951382W
Dairy farming in tropics	V. Venkatasubramanian	Case study of Tamilnadu, India.	OL2601908W
Breeding, whelping, and natal care of dogs	Louis L. Vine	Deals with selective breeding, breeding, prenatal care, whelping, postnatal care of the bitch and puppies, and dos and don'ts of training.	OL2623258W
Stallions	Stefan Schneider	The book provides well-founded information about everything that stallion owners should know, from basic training and presentation for competitions and shows to breeding and management. Throughout th…	OL26367719W
Experimental design and analysis for tree improvement	E.R. Williams,A.C. Matheson	Experimental Design and Analysis for Tree Improvement provides a set of practical procedures to follow when planning, designing and analysing tree improvement trials. Using many fully-worked examples…	OL27281976W
Bloodstock	James Gill undifferentiated	319 p., [8] leaves of plates : 26 cm	OL3292420W
If wishes were horses	Jean Slaughter Doty	Thirteen-year-old Stephany and her older sister Cam struggle to keep their horse farm going after their father's death.	OL5351889W
All about rabbits	Howard Hirschhorn	Text and photos present the many members of the rabbit family, as well as ways to care for them as pets.	OL5651368W