POPULAR POULTRYKEEPING FOR AMATEURS

ISBN: 9780267284511 Géneros: WNG Sinópsis: Excerpt from Popular PoultryKeeping for Amateurs A Practical and Complete Guide to Breeding and Keeping Poultry for Eggs or for the TablePoultrykeeping has advanced in this country during the last twenty years with leaps and bounds The number of fowls has probably quite doubled and at the same time more rational methods of management have been adopted Superior breeds have been introduced and both the laying powers and the table quali ties of the birds themselves have been improved But much yet remains to be done Many people especially those living in the country still keep on in the old ruts breeding and managing without any system Now if successful and profitable poultry are wanted they must have attention and proper management the same as any other stock Those Who think that there is nothing more to be done than to put a few fowls in a shed and to throw a Little corn at them two or three times a day in order to secure an abundant harvest of eggs are sadly mistaken Fowls can only be kept profitably by systematic management and any one who has not time or is not prepared to go to the trouble to keep them properly should not keep them at allAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart 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