228 POULTRY 



QUESTIONS 



1. What birds are included in the term " poultry "? 



2. What are the three general classes of chickens? 



3. What breeds are raised mainly for eggs? What breeds 

 for meat? What breeds are general-purpose chickens? 



4. What breeds are raised in the locality in which you live? 

 What breeds do you know? 



REFERENCES 



Farmers' Bulletins: 51, Standard varieties of chickens; 64, 

 Ducks and geese ; 128, Eggs and their uses as food ; 177, Squab 

 raising; 182, Poultry as food; 234, Guinea fowl and its use as 

 food ; 236, Incubation and incubators ; 287, Poultry manage- 

 ment; 355, Successful poultry and dairy farm; 357, Methods 

 of poultry management at Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station ; 452, Capons and caponizing. 



