LiPPiNCOTT's FARM MANUALS 



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., M.Agr. 



POULTRY HUSBANDMAN OF THE NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION; PROFESSOR 



OF POULTRY HUSBANDRY, NEW JERSEY STATE UNIVERSITY (RUTGERS) ; FORMERLY 



PROFESSOR OF AGRICULTURE OF THE BARON DE HIRSCH AGRICULTURAL 



SCHOOL; MEMBER INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POULTRY 



INSTRUCTORS AND INVESTIGATORS; LIFE MEMBER 



AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 



363 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT 



"If vain our toil, 

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



POPE Essay on Man 



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