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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
277 
AN EGG FARM. 
THE MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY IN 
LARGE NUMBERS. 
By H. H. STODDARD. 
BRING A SERIES OP ARTICLES WRITTEN FOR T1IE AMERICAN 
AGRICULTURIST. 
WITH OTHER ARTICLES. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
CONTENTS. 
Introduction.—Plan of Farm.—Manner of Feeding.— 
Location of Farm.—Kind of Soil.—Crops on the Farm.— 
Supplying Water and Food.—Collecting and Storing Dry 
Earth.—Houses for Layers.—Feeding House for Winter. 
—Houses for Sitters.—Arrangements for Breeding Stock. 
—Fowls for Layers.—Fowls for Sitters.—Management 
of Breeding Stock. — Coops for Chickens. — Feeding 
Chickens.—Setting the Eggs.—Management of Sitting 
Fowls. — Testing the Eggs. — Winter Management. — 
House for Early Hatched Pullets.—Shelters for Fowls 
and Chickens.—Kind of Food.—Building for Storing and 
Cooking Food. — Management of Young Chickens.— 
Feeding and Sheltering Chickens. — Additional Build¬ 
ings. — General Conclusions. — Farm Poultry House.— 
Poultry Farming.—Poultry Keeping as a Business. 
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of the author.— Country Gentleman , Albany. 
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the breeding and raising of poultry is here given, and no 
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE 0.\ T 
THE SHEEP. 
DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR 
AMERICAN SHEPHERDS. 
By HENRY STEWART. 
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