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How To Keep Laying Hens For Profit
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ISBN10: 1539942449
ISBN13: 9781539942443
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 4 2016
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.64 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781539942443
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 4 2016
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.64 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
This special re-print edition of C.S. Valentine's book How To Keep Hens For Profit offers insights into the raising of laying hens for home or farm egg production, as well as insights into several old American breeds, now considered heritage varieties. Written in 1910, included are all the details one needs to know about raising chickens from eggs all the way up to maturity. Chapters include The Nation and the Poultry Industry, The Plymouth Rock - The Java and the Dominique, The Wyandotte, The Rhode Island Red and the Buckeye, Chief Competitors of the American Hen, Improving the American Hen, Eggs of the American Breeds, Average Layers and Three Hundred Egg Hens, Egg Foods, Mother and Chicks, Handling the Chicks, Modern Ways of Housing, Runner Ducks for Eggs and more. A truly complete guidebook to keeping laying hens, with a special emphasis on breeds developed in America. 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.
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