The Farm-poultry . Farm-Poultry. 209 The Extent of Poultry Literature. WHAT ronstitiites a poultry library? It. is nearlyforty years since, its a hoy very niiieh inter-esttni in poultry, I began to on the sub-jeit. Wrights Iraetieal Poultry Keeper was thennly book to whiHi I had aecess, but for a number ofyears I read regularly the A iiienca)i Poultry Wmid, pub-lishetl at Hartford, Conn., and occasionally a copy ofanother of the papers of that day. Then from about1S80 to lSi*t I was out of poultry. In IS9tl 1 went intop«.nihry keeping as a vocation, and since that time havebeen accumula


The Farm-poultry . Farm-Poultry. 209 The Extent of Poultry Literature. WHAT ronstitiites a poultry library? It. is nearlyforty years since, its a hoy very niiieh inter-esttni in poultry, I began to on the sub-jeit. Wrights Iraetieal Poultry Keeper was thennly book to whiHi I had aecess, but for a number ofyears I read regularly the A iiienca)i Poultry Wmid, pub-lishetl at Hartford, Conn., and occasionally a copy ofanother of the papers of that day. Then from about1S80 to lSi*t I was out of poultry. In IS9tl 1 went intop«.nihry keeping as a vocation, and since that time havebeen accumulating poultry literatui*, and at irregularintervals throwing away considerable (juanlities of it. At tirst it seemeil to me desirable to keep tiles of poul-try journals. When 1 left (olorado in lsvi7 I left quitean accmiiulation of thes»>, l)ringing with me only spei-ial numbers of a few other pajjers. This classof hterature is too bulky and in general contains toolittle of penuaneiit value to make it worth while to


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