He wrote and illustrated the exhaustive book Our Poultry and All About Them (1903), and much earlier in 1867 illustrated William Bernhard Tegetmeier's The Poultry Book.
A renowned author and illustrator, he penned and drew the detailed book Our Poultry and All About Them (1903), and prior to that, in 1867, he contributed illustrations to William Bernhard Tegetmeier's The Poultry Book.