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This special re-print edition of Edward Farrington's book The Home Poultry Book is a guide to keeping chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and guinea fowl. Written in 1913, this classic text contains an extensive overview of all one needs to know about raising chickens and other poultry for pleasure, profit, meat or eggs. Chapters include How to Make A Beginning, Selecting a Breed To Keep, The Kind of House To Build, Feeding A Little Flock, Hatching Chicks With an Incubator or Hen, Brooding Newly Hatched Chicks, How To Get Eggs In The Winter, Keeping Poultry On a Town Lot, Breeding Fancy Poultry As a Pastime, Ducks, Geese and Guinea Fowl, Some Open Secrets, The Year's Work By Month and more. Illustrated with rare vintage photos, this is one of the more comprehensive books on poultry keeping. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

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