UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 464 



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Contribution from the States Relations Service 

 A. C. TRUE, Director. 



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Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



December 30, 1916 



LESSONS ON POULTRY FOR RURAL SCHOOLS. 1 



By F. E. Heald, Specialist in Agricultural Education. 2 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction 1 



Selecting the flock 8 



Disposing of culls 10 



Poultry houses and yards 11 



Poultry feeding 12 



Winter management of poultry 15 



Poultry diseases and pests 16 



Egg selection 17 



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Incubation 18 



Marketing eggs 19 



Brooding of chickens 20 



Preserving eggs 21 



Raising crops for poultry 22 



Summer management of poultry 23 



Supplement 25 



INTRODUCTION. 



Iii the rural-school work in agriculture there is probably no subject 

 which applies more of the principles of animal husbandry than that 

 of poultry culture. This subject provides good material for instruc- 

 tion, is within the grasp of elementary pupils, and the home 

 application may be made with profit in every community and by 

 nearly every pupil. 



The points of superiority of poultry study from the standpoint of 

 home application have been arranged in chart form in figures 1 and 2. 

 To be educational in a maximum degree the treatment of this 

 subject should provide at least three features. There should be (1) 

 school lessons arranged in a seasonal sequence, reenforced by (2) 

 practical exercises in or near the school, and applied by the pupil at 

 home in (3) a project which may or may not be club work. 



1 Prepared under the direction of C. H. Lane, Chief Specialist in Agricultural Education, States Relations 

 Service. 



2 The writer is indebted to R. R. Slocum, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, for valuable assistance. 

 Note. — This bulletin is intended to assist rural school-teachers to utilize the available publications on 



poultry husbandry in seasonal school lessons and related heme practice during the school year. 

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