Publisher's Synopsis
This special re-print edition of George E. Howard's book "The American Fancier's Poultry Book" is a guide to raising poultry for pleasure and profit. Written in 1899, chapters include The Poultry Industry, The Egg, Incubation, The Chick, Recipes For Feeding Poultry, Feeding For Eggs, Poultry House Building, Keeping Eggs, Caponizing Cockerels, Diseases of Poultry, The Breeds, Bantams, Ducks, Geese, Swans and more. Long considered one of the most informative books on raising poultry in general. Lavishly illustrated with vintage poultry art, this is a highly recommended book for beginners in poultry. 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.
