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The Home Poultry Book

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See Exhibit:

Backyard Chickens

Source of Digital Item

National Agricultural Library

Full text

Title

The Home Poultry Book

Creator

Farrington, Edward I.

Date

1913

Publisher

McBride, Nast & Company. New York

Subject

backyard chickens

Excerpt

No doubt the experts whose eyes chance to fall on this book will say that it is elementary. It is, and purposely so. It is designed first and last for the amateur who has no time and inclination to read technical or semi-technical books on poultry keeping. It aims to tell the man with a few hens what to do and how to do it.