CONTENTS 



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Chapter I The Business Breeds 5 



Chapter II The Scrub Hen Turned to Ijusiness 10 



Chapter III Parents of the Egg 13 



Chapter IV What is an Egg? 18 



Chapter V Hatching the Egg 29 



Chapter VI The Chicken's Nurse 36 



Chapter VII Care of the Baby Chick 40 



Chapter VIII The Young Bird 45 



Chapter IX The Hen's House 49 



Chapter X Feeding the Hen 58 



Chapter XI The Colony Plan G8 



Chapter XII The Market Gardener's Hens 73 



Chapter XIII The Boy's Hens 77 



Chapter XIV Marketing Poultry Products 83 



Chapter XV Marketing Eggs 88 



Chapter XVI Companions of the Hen 93 



Chapter XVII The Health of the Hen 98 



Chapter XVIII. . . . Purebred Poultry Ill 



Chapter XIX Who Should Keep Hens? 113 



Chapter XX Odds and Ends 120 



