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The History of the Hen Fever. A Humorous Record

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The History of the Hen Fever. A Humorous Record

Geo. P. Burnham

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In the 1850s America went mad for fancy fowl, and prices soared like a stock bubble. George Burnham, who rode the craze and helped inflate it, tells the whole comic story: the Cochin-China frenzy, the first Boston fowl show, and how poultry books get puffed. A hilarious insider's history of a barnyard mania. Laugh, and beware the next fad.

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55 chapters

  1. 1THE HISTORY OF THE HEN FEVER.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4THE HISTORY OF THE HEN FEVER.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. PREMONITORY SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE.
  6. 6CHAPTER II. THE "COCHIN-CHINAS." BUBBLE NUMBER ONE.
  7. 7CHAPTER III. THE FIRST FOWL-SHOW IN BOSTON.
  8. 8CHAPTER IV. HOW "POULTRY-BOOKS" ARE MADE.
  9. 9CHAPTER V. THREATENING INDICATIONS.
  10. 10CHAPTER VI. THE EPIDEMIC SPREADING.
  11. 11CHAPTER VII. ALARMING DEMONSTRATIONS.
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII. THE FEVER WORKING.
  13. 13CHAPTER IX. THE SECOND POULTRY-SHOW IN BOSTON.
  14. 14CHAPTER X. THE MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY'S SECOND SHOW.
  15. 15CHAPTER XI. PROGRESS OF THE MALADY.
  16. 16CHAPTER XII. MY CORRESPONDENCE.
  17. 17CHAPTER XIII. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.
  18. 18CHAPTER XIV. "BOTHER'EM POOTRUMS." BUBBLE NUMBER TWO.

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