Publisher's Synopsis
This special re-print edition of Michael K. Boyer's book "$6.41 Profit Per Hen Per Year: The Corning Egg Book" is a guide to raising laying hens for egg production. Written in 1910, this classic text by one of the great experts of the turn of the century on laying hens sheds light on age old techniques of raising chickens for egg production. Chapters include Egg Farming as Profitable Undertaking, Six Dollars Per Year Per Hen, Premium Prices For Corning Method Eggs, Marketing Eggs, The Breed To Keep, Pullets or Yearling Hens?, Buildings, Fresh Air and Sunlight, When To Hatch Chicks, Feeding Pullets, Feeding Hens In The Molt and much more. This short guide will be found to be of great value to those interested in keeping flocks of laying hens for profit. 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.
