. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 84. Intensive back-yard plant. (Photograph from E. A. Day, Farmington, Minnesota). Fig. 85. Intensive system on farm in central Massachusetts. Shelters with small attached runs. Note similarity between the unit in this system and the house . and run in Fig. 84 ventilation of a house an engineering feat and the feeding of a few fowls a chemical problem) were carefully observed. Not until the ^ I first visited this section and published an account of the system in igoi. No extended account of it had previously been published, and the o


. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 84. Intensive back-yard plant. (Photograph from E. A. Day, Farmington, Minnesota). Fig. 85. Intensive system on farm in central Massachusetts. Shelters with small attached runs. Note similarity between the unit in this system and the house . and run in Fig. 84 ventilation of a house an engineering feat and the feeding of a few fowls a chemical problem) were carefully observed. Not until the ^ I first visited this section and published an account of the system in igoi. No extended account of it had previously been published, and the occasional items regarding it appearing in one of the poultry papers were hardly noticed. Even to this day the greater part of the poultry press is not interested in these poultry keepers, who, with few exceptions, neither buy nor sell anything through advertis- ing. I would not state positively from memory, and verification would be difficult, but to the best of my recollection it was not until five or six years later than the pub- lication of my account that investigators of poultry matters began to visit this sec- tion, and these were mostly engaged in educational Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935. Boston ; New York : Ginn and Company


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