Malcolm Macfarlane, a local expert on poultry farming, was the son of Peter Mc Farlane and his wife Barbara, born Renfrew. In October 1894, in Kimberley, he married Florence Evelyn Storrier and they became the parents of four sons and two daughters. He wrote four successful books on poultry farming: South African poultry keeping; a book of up-to-date poultry practice for South Africa (Johannesburg, 1912, 155 p.; 6^th ed. 1926); Poultry diseases in South Africa: A book of poultry diseases and their treatment in South Africa (Johannesburg, 1913, 108 p.; 3^rd ed. 1923); Egg farming in South Africa (Johannesburg, 1917, 104 p.; 2^nd ed. 1924); and Poultry on the farm (Durban, 1926).

List of sources:

FamilySearch: Malcolm MacFarlane. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/93GX-K5B/malcolm-macfarlane-1861-1939

South African bibliography to the year 1925. London: Mansell, 1979.

WorldCat, at http://www.worldcat.org

Compiled by: C. Plug

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