First Lessons in Poultry Keeping: Second Year Course

This special re-print edition of John H. Robinson's second installment "First Lessons in Poultry Keeping" picks up where the first installment left off. Written in 1907 by one of the greatest poultry experts of the early 20th Century, this classic text is part of a two part correspondence course that introduced tens of thousands of ordinary people to the small scale poultry business. Included in this second year course are lessons on Inbreeding and Linebreeding, Common Phenomena of Breeding, Market Duck Culture, Market Goose Culture, Turkey Growing, Possibilities and Probabilities in Poultry Culture, Typical Ventures in Poultry Keeping, Branches of Poultry Culture, Laying Out Egg Laying Plants, Breeds and Varieties of Fowl, Stocking the Poultry Plant, The Most Important Part of the Poultryman's Equipment, External and Internal Parasites of Poultry, Poultry Nomenclature, Eggs and Egg Production, Business Morality in Poultry, Winter Egg Production, Treatment of Sick Fowls and more. Lavishly illustrated with vintage period photographs. Note: This is part 2 of a two part series. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

Author: John H. Robinson, Jackson Chambers

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Nov 01, 2018

Number of Pages: 170 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1729649343

ISBN-13: 9781729649343