UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 464 { 
Contribution from the States Relations Service 
A. C. TRUE, Director. 
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. 
Page. 
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 
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. 
In 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 home practice during the school year. 
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