The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[3riverschick]

Hi Bob,
What's the formal title of this book? " the book of knowledge in 1944. It sounds like a good'un."
Thanks,
Karen in western PA, USA

 

[Robert Blosl]

It was called the Rhode Island Red Club Book of Knowledge. You can not buy it any wear it came out in 1944 it was a pre trying to get the Red Club back on track book be for Ernie Jones took over as Sectary of the Red Club. It was a good book I have a copy somewhere around the house. Does any one know if there is a copy on the Internet we can look at?

 

[Chris Herzog]

Bob,
Do you know where I can find a copy of a book called Red Hen Tails? Something the RIR club had put together.

Chris

 

[3riverschick]

It was called the Rhode Island Red Club Book of Knowledge. You can not buy it any wear it came out in 1944 it was a pre trying to get the Red Club back on track book be for Ernie Jones took over as Sectary of the Red Club. It was a good book I have a copy somewhere around the house. Does any one know if there is a copy on the Internet we can look at?

Are you still selling them for $3.50? It's a 1944 book, so most free online lit stops after 1926, it's a copyright thing. Now that Google Books has nabbed all the orphan books in the world, in history's greatest knowledge grab, it makes it harder for the other online services to upload the orphans, sigh.
Just gotta love HathiDigital Trust. They put lit online one can't find in other places. That's where I found that ultra-rare booklet by William White Broomhead on the Light Sussex. Anyway, they have plethora of lit on the Rhode Island Red. Can search in singular or plural for RIR name.
HathiTrust Digital Library | Millions of books online
www.hathitrust.org/
Rhode Island Red hits:
http://tinyurl.com/8fraoz3
Best,
Karen
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These 4 books are available online at http://www.archive.org

The Rhode Island red; its history, breeding, management, exhibition, and judging -
Scott, George Ryley, 1886-

Rhode Island reds, how to breed and judge them, with articles on breeding, rearing and mating
by America's leading Rhode Island red fanciers - Hewes, Theodore, 1859-

Standard-bred Rhode Island reds, rose and single comb; their practical qualities;
the standard requirements; how to judge them; how to mate and breed for best results
- Hale, Dwight Edward, 1877- ed

Success with pedigreed reds - Daniels, Herbert A. Mrs. [from old catalog]

 

[Chris Herzog]

These 4 books are available online at http://www.archive.org

The Rhode Island red; its history, breeding, management, exhibition, and judging -
Scott, George Ryley, 1886-

Rhode Island reds, how to breed and judge them, with articles on breeding, rearing and mating
by America's leading Rhode Island red fanciers - Hewes, Theodore, 1859-

Standard-bred Rhode Island reds, rose and single comb; their practical qualities;
the standard requirements; how to judge them; how to mate and breed for best results
- Hale, Dwight Edward, 1877- ed

Success with pedigreed reds - Daniels, Herbert A. Mrs. [from old catalog]

Karen,
Thanks for posting those books and the link!

Chris

 

[3riverschick]

Karen,
Thanks for posting those books and the link!

Chris

More than welcome. Obscure lit's my passion
Best,
Karen

 

[jaman4]

Check out this link
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au:Rhode+Island+Red+Club+of+America.&qt=hot_author

 

[jaman4]

I was so excited when I saw those titles on the previous post.I rushed to post them.I have since went back to the link.I can't figure out how to down load them.Maybe it can be done but apparently not by me.
Bobby

 

[3riverschick]

I was so excited when I saw those titles on the previous post.I rushed to post them.I have since went back to the link.I can't figure out how to down load them.Maybe it can be done but apparently not by me.
Bobby

Hi Bobby,
What you're looking at in that post is WorldCat. This is arguably the largest mega library-search engine in the world.
The info you see is a library card explaining they have the lit and details about it.
There is a way you can possibly obtain a copy for yourself as opposed to getting it on a loan.
Enter, Kirtas Books. http://kirtasbooks.com/
Kirtas makes the state-of-the-art scanning machines which Google and others worldwide use to scan
all this lit which we see on-line. Secondary to this, Kirtas has a digitizing business. They have agreements with almost 10
of the Nations' top libraries to let them scan and make books out of lit these libraries are curating.
Last time I checked, Cornell was still a sticky wicket for getting permission, but that may have changed. At Kirtas Books
website are gateways into these libraries' catalogs. One can search for the lit one wants. Then , if the library agrees
(usually any hesitation concerns lit published after 1926), Kirtas can get it for you. You have three options. The Rhode
Island Red Club should take severe notice of this as a fund raising measure. I hope someone from the Club is reading this. ( prices can be lower and vary w/the volume, this is just an example below drawn from the website)
1. Digitize and Download Only $24.35.
2. Softcover copy $24.35
3. Hardcover copy, $34.35.
4.. " Invest in Knowledge ".$44.35 ( Listening RIRC?) This is where you pay extra for a hardcover copy,but...wait for it...you also
receive as the purchaser of that lit, a 5% commission every time anyone ordered that book from Kirtas Books. Cool, uh? See their "Digitizing Books on Demand Affiliate Program"
Once a book has been digitized for any of the 3 reasons above, it can also be ordered as a digital download for $1.99
Downloads are convenient, however, there is a lot to be said for a physical book in which you can under-line and make
notes without worrying about defacing valuable vintage lit.
The bindings, even on the softcover, are high quality. If things haven't changed, the soft-covers are navy blue with
crisp gold titling. They look handsome on the shelf.
Best Regards,
Karen

P.S. It is possible Kirtas Books might want permission from the RIRC to digitize this RIR lit.( copyright thang) That shouldn't be too difficult as the RIRC seems to want to continue getting this lit into breeder's hands.

P.P.S. Bobby, I think the e-book Worldcat mentioned was not downloadable lit, but a notice of the mircoform format in which they were curating the lit. Good catch tho, lots of good cites in your posting, Thanks!.

 

[Robert Blosl]

Quote: Karen excellent report on how to get these old books reproduced. Dont think anyone from the Red Club is going to read this comment or this tread.

You need to order them if you can how every method you want. Even if you bought one on ebay it would cost at least $75. or more. Red Hen tails will be on ebay once in a while.

I have owned and read about five of them.

One think to remember the reds in the early days where nothing to get excited about and it was about the 1940 and 50 when they got consistent color and type.

I saw some pictures of some of the reds in the 1920s in a book the other night on one of these books you suggested. They looked like many of our production reds of the current trend that people own. What happened do to not breeding by the standard the current population has reverted back to the 1910 version of what they had back then.

If you can show us books we can look at and read high light the web address when we hit it we go to the source.

Many of your Vet schools in your states has library's which have many of these old Journals I have got some on Library loan for free or pay one dollar to my public Li bray.

Old poultry books are much easy er to get on loan than journals.

You would make a good sectary for a breed club and I bet you could put out a good newsletter as well. We are going to need some leadership in this Red movement down the road and I mean some spark plugs . I have done my share I can advise and show you how it is done but got to spend the last years of my poultry life breeding and motivating you guys.

Great work.