The Modern Farm Hen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798589794267)

• Originally Published 1922
• Features 69 Illustrations

Newly Edited with new typesetting for ease of reading.
Contains some archaic punctuation.

Advice, building plans, wisdom and recipes for anyone interested in building a profitable business from raising chickens for eggs and meat.

From the Preface of the book: A few farmers have recognized the fine profit to be made from the production of high-class market eggs and the sale of hatching eggs and baby chicks in the breeding season. They have laid out the farm poultry work so that it can be efficiently handled in connection with general farming. And they are making good money.

The thought has been with the author for some years that the methods used by these progressive men and women, if placed in a form accessible to other farmers, should do much towards elevating the general standard of the farm hen and would make farm poultry generally more profitable.

The result has been the bringing together of this book which is written entirely for farmers and is based upon the experience and the methods of actual farmers. It deals only from the practical standpoint, keeping ever in mind the units and the conditions best adapted for average farm conditions. It attempts to reduce into a formula, as much as possible, every step along the road to poultry success.

It should answer many of the questions which people are constantly raising as to the possibilities in poultry for the farmer. It will answer questions of methods, procedure and means. It exists for no other purpose.

• What Farm Poultry Raisers Are Doing
• A Practical Farm Flock Unit
• The Selection of Breeds
• Buildings and Equipment for the Flocks
• The Laws and Principles of Breeding
• Care of the Farm Flock Breeding Pen
• Natural and Artificial Incubation
• Successful Brooding of Chicks
• How to Feed Poultry of All Ages
• Developing the Young Stock Properly
• Culling Farm Poultry for Any Purpose
• Care and Management for "Winter Eggs"
• Artificial Lighting for Winter Eggs
• Marketing Farm Eggs Successfully
• How to Sell and Advertise Stock
• Poultry Diseases and Remedies

This edition is only available in paperback.

Author: Zachary Reitan,Chesla C. Sherlock
ISBN-13: 9798589794267
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2021
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.45d