First Lessons in Poultry Keeping: First Year Course

This special re-print edition of John H. Robinson's first installment "First Lessons in Poultry Keeping" was 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 first year course are lessons on Winter Rations For Laying Stock, The Hows and Whys of Feeding Laying Stock in the Winter, General Principles and Rules For Poultry Breeders, Putting Principles Into Practice, Hatching Chicks With Hens, Rearing Chicks With Hens, The Care of Chicks From Weaning to Maturity, Points To Be Considered in Poultry House Construction, Two Plain Cheap Poultry Houses of Simple Construction, Five Good Small Poultry Houses, Summer Management of Fowls, Incubator Rooms and Brooder Houses, Poultry House Fixtures, Poultry Fences and Yards, Getting Ready For Winter, Exhibiting Poultry, Fattening Poultry, Selling Market Poultry and Eggs, Selling Exhibition Stock and Eggs For Hatching and more. Lavishly illustrated with vintage period photographs. Note: This is part 1 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: 178 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1729649467
• | ISBN-13: 9781729649466