Garden Farm And Poultry Annual 1900 Classic Reprint

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259862222
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Poultryman and Pomologist, Vol. 1 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poultryman and Pomologist, Vol. 1: August 1, 1900 The size depends upon the advantages of the farmer. A loo-egg machine or even a zoo-egg one is small enough. If a smaller one is purchased you can't place more than its natural capacity in it, while you don't have to fill a large one yet you could put in more eggs if you wanted to. One question is will the farmer raise enough chicks to pay to buy an incubator? Does he or will he spend enough time in caring for them to make an incubator pay? In the first place, if he has an incubator it will pay because he can raise more chickens if he will spend time in caring for them. Here is another objection. Has he enough land so that he may allow sufficient for a chicken yard? Many farmers feel that all the land used for a poultry yard is wasted. They must consider what the returns. Are. If you would ask some farmers to fence off an acre of land and raise fowls in it, all that it would support, they would almost laugh at you. _an acre will be plenty for 100 hens. With proper care and feed they would bring in a profit of $100. With wheat at 75 cents per bushel it would take 133% bushels to bring in $100. It would require good land to raise that much. And besides fowls don't require the very best land, some of the poorer will do for them. But that is almost leaving our subject. Now if a farmer or anyone else wants to raise a lot of fowls he surely doesn't want to be bothered with 25 or 30 old setting hens which will break more eggs than they hatch, step on the chicks and kill them, and eat more feed than all the chicks together. 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.