LlPPINCOTT'S FARM; MA N U A L S 



EDITED BY K. C. DAVIS, PH.D. (CORNELL). 



PRODUCTIVE 

 POULTRY HUSBANDRY 



A COMPLETE TEXT 



DEALING WITH THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES 

 INVOLVED IN THE MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY 



BY 

 HARRY R. LEWIS, B.S. 



POULTRY HUSBANDMAN OF THE NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION; ASSIST 



ANT PROFESSOR OF POULTRY AND DAIRY HUSBANDRY, NEW JERSEY COLLEGE OF 



AGRICULTURE (RUTGERSJJ FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF AGRICULTURE 



OF THE BARON DE HIRSCH AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL; MEMBER 

 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POULTRY INSTRUC- 

 TORS AND INVESTIGATORS; LIFE MEMBER 



AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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" If vain our toil, 

 We ought to blame the culture, not the soil." 



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