General

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Egg Farming. A practical, reliable Manual upon Producing Eggs and Poultry for Market as a profitable Business Enterprise. W. C. Thompson. Professor of Poultry Husbandry, Rutgers University and Poultry Husbandman, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New York. Orange Judd Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1936. Illustrated. pp. 300. 5½ × 8. Cloth $2.

Modern poultry and egg farming comprises an economically significant part of American agriculture. To earn profits in this business, however, every effort must be made to use efficient stock, maintain it in health and productive condition, feed and house it economically, and handle the products effectively. Business methods must be used. Every step must be based on sound, scientific methods. Eggs form a part of the daily diet of all people. There is a constant demand for good table eggs. Poultry farmers engage in an indispensable enterprise.