. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor ... uction, I offer my tribute of praise, and hopethe circulation of the book may bring due reward. Thos. W. Vicarage, Day, 1909. PUBLISHERS ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Publishers desire to add to the Authors acknow-ledgment their own testimony to the unfailing courtesyand kindness accorded to them by Mrs. Comyns-Lewerand Mr. S. H. Lewer, whose encouragement and assistancehave greatly facilitated the production of this book. To Make Poultry Pay the best quality foods must be used. These it is our ai
. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor ... uction, I offer my tribute of praise, and hopethe circulation of the book may bring due reward. Thos. W. Vicarage, Day, 1909. PUBLISHERS ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Publishers desire to add to the Authors acknow-ledgment their own testimony to the unfailing courtesyand kindness accorded to them by Mrs. Comyns-Lewerand Mr. S. H. Lewer, whose encouragement and assistancehave greatly facilitated the production of this book. To Make Poultry Pay the best quality foods must be used. These it is our aim tosupply. We pay carriage on all foods, and when buyingfrom us customers are dealing — — — — — DIRECT WITH THE MANUFACTURERS The Genuine Tke following are some of our Specialities:— Cock o the Walk Poultry Meal {For Stock Birds and Egg Production) Lactum Chicken Meal {Containing io% Dried MilK) Oatum Chicken Meal {Containing Meat and other Cooked Food) Sussex Dry Chick Foods In Five Qualities {clean and free from dust) SUSSEX GROUND OATS {Finest Quality). ^^ We treat all applications with the greatest courtesy,and make a great point of Prompt Despatch. Thiscan only be ensured by dealing direct with the makers,many advertisers acting only as Agents, and havingto hand their orders on to be fulfilled by theManufacturer, thus causing delay. Send for our Price List of all Poultry Foods, which is free, to— A. THORPE 6 SONS Sussex Ground Oat Mills. RYE, SUSSEX TABLE OF CONTENTS FACE Preface . vii Publishers Acknowledgment . . ixIntroduction 1 CHAP. I. On the Housing of Poultry and General Management .5 n. On Feeding and Food-Stuffs ... 24 III. Incubation by Natural and Artificial Methods 42 IV. On Rearing Chickens .... 79V. Insect Pests 92 VI. Weeding out the Chicks ... 95 VII. Pebparing Poultry for Exhibition . .105 VIII. The Commercial Side of Poultry Keeping 124 IX. Diseases of Poultry . . .152 X. Mbndelism and the Laws of Heredity . 170 XI. Colour 214 XII. Asiatic
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