Excerpt from Illustrated Lecture on the Production of Poultry and Eggs on the Farm Practically every farmer is a poultryman in the sense that he View keeps poultry. Comparatively few farmers attempt to make poultry keeping the principal activity on the farm, but content themselves With keeping a small flock. Such a flock works into the economy of the farm to the best advantage, being maintained at a small cost and making use of many materials which would otherwise go to waste, and provides a valuable adjunct to ...
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Excerpt from Illustrated Lecture on the Production of Poultry and Eggs on the Farm Practically every farmer is a poultryman in the sense that he View keeps poultry. Comparatively few farmers attempt to make poultry keeping the principal activity on the farm, but content themselves With keeping a small flock. Such a flock works into the economy of the farm to the best advantage, being maintained at a small cost and making use of many materials which would otherwise go to waste, and provides a valuable adjunct to the home meat supply. It also provides a source of income which, While composed of small amounts individually, is Spread over practically the entire year, and is often sufficient 1 to clothe the family and pay the grocery bill. The farm poul try flock is therefore of the greatest importance, and because of its almost universal existence on the farms of the country pro duces an income which, in the aggregate, is of enormous magni tude. The value of the poultry and eggs produced in 1913 is estimated at (ref. 1, p. 16; Ref. By far the greater part of this is produced on the general farms. Men capable of handling large poultry farms successfully are very few, and in consequence the successful poultry farms and the poultry products from them are of minor importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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