National Agricultural Library

Fundamentals in Poultry Breeding

A Complete Guide to the Successful Breeding of American Standard Fowls, Turkeys, Ducks and Geese for Table Poultry, for Egg Production and for Exhibition

Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company. Quincy, IL

The breeding of poultry to high standards of productiveness and beauty is one of the most fascinating pursuits in which people of creative instincts and cultivated taste can engage. It is also the line of such work open to the greatest number of people.

In the nature of the case the work of systematic improvement of nearly all our domestic animals and a few of the larger kinds of domestic birds can be done only on farms, by persons who can give their time largely to such work, and who are able to invest considerable capital in it. Poultry breeding also has its inducements for this class of breeders, but in addition, its opportunities are open, on a scale proportionate to the land available and the leisure time that can be employed in it, to every-one who has land room to grow a few birds — if only bantams — every year.