INDEX 



Page. 



Introduction 5 



Foreword 6 



One Man Plant 7 



Sitting Hens 16 



Brood Coops for Hens and Chicks 18 



How I Discovered the Right and Wrong Ways of 



Feeding Baby Chicks 20 



My Method of Feeding Baby Chicks 30 



Feeding Growing Chicks 33 



Tonic and Feather Grower 36 



Worms on Growing Chicks 38 



Free Range 40 



Norwich Automatic Exerciser and Feeder 41 



The Best Breeding Age of a Female 43 



Mating - 46 



Breeding Houses and Yards for Old Fowls 58 



Exhibiting Fowls 60 



Training Quarters 64 



Conditioning 64 



Conditioning Birds for Breeding after their Return 



from the Showroom 68 



House and Yards for Male Birds 73 



Lice and How to Rid Them 76 



Poultry Diseases 78 



Scaly Legs 85 



How the Amateur is Beaten in the Show Room by the 



Fakir • 85 



Faking White Birds for the Show Room 92 



Washing White Birds 93 



Finis ■ 95 



