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POULTRY BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT 



Backyard Poultry-Keeping. Chickens may be kept on 

 a city lot at a profit. The waste food from the table of 



an average family, in addition 

 to a little grain, will feed 

 enough fowls to furnish the 

 needed fresh eggs for the 

 family. With good hens and 

 careful attention to the houses 

 and yards, a piece of ground 

 25 x 50 feet will accommodate 

 enough hens to produce as 

 many fresh eggs as the aver- 

 age family will consume, be- 

 sides a considerable number 

 of broilers. It must be under- 

 stood, however, that the 

 chickens will require daily at- 

 tention throughout the year. 

 The feeding must be done reg- 

 ularly and intelligently and 

 the premises be kept clean and 

 sanitary. It is not necessary 

 that a chicken yard should be 

 a disfigurement to the back 

 premises; a chicken yard may 

 be made a thing of beauty as 

 well as profit on a town lot. 

 It is not necessary to make 

 the chicken yard a nuisance 

 ground, or dumping-place for 

 old shoes and tomato cans. 

 Chickens do not thrive on 

 such things. The spectacle of 



BACKYARD EGG FARMING 



Clarence Hogan, winner of a 

 $100 prize in a poultry contest 

 at Portland, Oregon. He was 

 13 years old and finishing the 

 eighth grade in school. He fed 

 the chickens, cleaned their 

 houses, spaded the yards for 

 them, weighed the food they 

 ate and counted the eggs. In 

 addition to all that he was an 

 editor editing a small paper and 

 publishing it with the aid of a 

 typewriter and a mimeograph. 

 What can a boy not do? 



