PREFACE 



Part III is devoted to the practical feeding of poultry 

 and tells how to feed poultry, and is the part of greatest 

 importance to everyone who keeps any chickens. The 

 readers who do not care to study into the purpose of feed- 

 ing or to learn why certain things are done can turn di- 

 rect to this part of the book and select a ration which will 

 give them good results and secure information on feeding 

 which is of immediate practical application. Successful 

 rations are given which are in actual use in different sec- 

 tions of the country. Rations for every class of poultry 

 keepers are included : for the farmers with whom poultry 

 is a side issue, for the suburban or city family who have 

 only enough available space to keep a few fowls and for 

 the poultryman who keeps chickens on a large scale. 

 Complete information and rations on the commercial 

 fattening of poultry as it is conducted in the poultry fat- 

 tening stations are also included. 



The authors have endeavored to supply a book on poul- 

 try feeding that will do for poultrymen and poultry stu- 

 dents what the well-known book on "Feeds and Feeding" 

 by Henry and Morrison has so successfully done for 

 stockmen and students of livestock. The object through- 

 out this book has been to present all the scientific and 

 practical facts relating to poultry feeding in so simple a 

 manner that anyone can understand and readily use them 

 in his own feeding problems. 



ALFRED R. LEE 

 HARRY M. LAMON. 



Washington, D. C., 1922 



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