American Poultry Journal 1915

This special re-print edition of the American Poultry Journal's book "The American Poultry Yearbook" offers an extensive look into the breeding and raising of Poultry in the United States a century ago. Written in 1915, this classic work contains an extensive amount of information on poultry. No starting or expert chicken keeper should be without the knowledge contained in this small book. Chapters include American Breeds of Poultry on Our Side of the Pond, Conditioning Birds For the Showroom, The Correct Weight For Poultry Bred to Standard, Ecto-Parasites of Poultry, Encyclopedia Ffor Poultry People, Feeding From Shell to Maturity, Figuring the Cost of Egg Production, Poultry First Aid, Home Inventions for the Poultry Coop, How to Kill and Bleed Poultry For Table Use, How To Sell Poultry by Mail, Line Breeding, History of the Mottled Anconas, Origin of the Silver Campines, The Lakenvelders, Blue Opringtons, Origin of Single Comb Buff Orpingtons, Single Comb White Opringtons, Origin and History of the Rhode Island Reds, The Barred Plymouth Rocks, Origin of the White Plymouth Rocks, Partridge Wyandottes, The White Wyandotte, The Poultry Business Thirty Five Years Ago, Poultry Houses For Winter, The Poultryman's Medicine Cabinet, Pure Air For Poultry, Raising Geese, The Story of a One Acre Farm, Successful Poultry Raising on the Farm, Summer Eggs, The Value of Inbreeding, What the Science of Genetics Has Done for the Poultryman and much more. Nearly 500 pages of hard to find information on raising poultry. Also included are extensive show results, historical photographs and old breeder's advertisements, making this work a truly historic treasure for the beginning and serious poultry keeper. 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.

Excerpt from American Poultry World, Vol. 7: May, 1916 One with D. W. Young, Y., S C. White Leghorn Specialist, be ginning on page 1067 of the December, 1915, issue of Reliable Poultry Journal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from American Poultry World, Vol. 7: November, 1915 As an example of how some Show manage ments provide classes for this so-called utility poultry, we call atten tion to the classification, at the Allentown Fair this season, in which the following is_ found American laying type pullets; American laying t'ype hens; English lay ing type pullets; Eng lish' laying type hens; Beef types. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from American Poultry World, Vol. 6: March, 1915 The essential and biological point is that what is actually done is to purify the stock in respect to all characters to as great a degree as. Possible. What the successful breeder aims to do is to get his stock into such condition that he has only one kind of 'blood in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from American Poultry World, Vol. 6: August, 1915 Sane 'and sensible Standards are favored for all breeds intended to possess' market and egg productive qualities, and therefore; it is always advisable for revision committees to act with precaution before adopting suggested changes during Standard revision-work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from American Poultry World, Vol. 6: June, 1915 It is the lin-american and unfair nature of this long tolerated method that hurts! And the hurt is there whether the aggrieved exhibitors do or do not protest - whether or not they cry their, disapproval from the housetops. The interested public also has the right to criticise this clearly questionable prace tice and to object to the general results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.