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Title: Poultry secrets, gathered, tested and now disclosed
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Boyer, Michael K., 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. Atkinson co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Having Healthy Fowls 35 Secret of Successful Molting 36 Secret of Telling the Laying Hen 36 Secret of 200 Eggs per Hen per Year 37 Trap Nest Secrets 38 Secret of Telling the Age 38 Egg Secrets 39 Secret of Preserving Eggs 39 Secret of Killing the Fertility of Eggs 39 Secret of Winter Eggs 39 Secret of Eggs All the Year 42 Secret of Having Perfect Eggs 42 Kohrs Secret of Selecting Layers -43 Professor Rices Fat Hen Secret 43 Market Secrets 46 Secret of Judging the Age of Dressed Poultry 46 Secret of Dressing Fowls 47 Secret of Celery-Fed Broilers 47 Secret of High-Priced Market Stock 47 Truslows Secret of High Prices for Ducks 48 CONTENTS Miscellaneous Secrets 50 Secret of Determining the Right Breeding Age 50 Secret of Preparing Fowls for Exhibition 50 Secret of Scaly-Leg Cure 52 Secret of Carrying Chickens 52 Secret of a Successful Start 52 Lawnys Secret of Insect Killers 53 Incubator Secrets 54 Broody Hen Secrets 54 Dr. Woods Egg Hatching Secret 55 A. F. Hunters Secret of Success 56
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Secrets of Fowl Breeding There is no foundation for the theory or belief that certainvarieties of fowls are more hardy than others. It is true, how-ever, that not all the foreign varieties take kindly to our change-able climate; but if the breeding is right, we can build up a ruggedrace out of almost any known breed. Breeds are often condemnedfor lack of hardiness when the fault really lies at the door of thebreeder who has used injudicious methods. Properly to select and breed the stock is an important secret,and in this particular the writer can present information that willbe useful to poultrymen. In originally buying the stock it is important that it be ob-tained from a reliable party, out of a well-established strain ofits class, noted for hardiness and good, strong utility qualities. You must satisfy yourselves that the specimens purchased arenot related, as, for instance, brothers and sisters. There is not somuch danger if the chicks chosen are from eggs laid by differenthens opoultrysecretsga00boye

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