Western poultry book

Introduction

In the hope of helping beginners and others of my friends in the poultry business, and in response to urgent requests for a book on poultry culture from my pen, I wrote a small volume three years ago. The whole edition was sold in a year, and on account of the interest taken in it and the demand for something more, a second edition was issued. This edition is now exhausted and a third edition is now offered, with additional chapters and up-to-date information on breeding, tireless brooders, and other new features in the poultry industry.

The book is a synopsis of many chapters of my "Woman's Work in the Poultry Yard" and other talks on poultry, and embodies the personal, practical experiences I have been through myself in many years of pleasant work in the poultry yard. Its object is not necessarily to urge anyone into the business, but to encourage and help beginners and especially newcomers, not back East but on the great Pacific Coast and in the Western States, where conditions differ materially from those in the East and where there is an increasingly large demand for both poultry and eggs ; where the poultry business is about as profitable as any that can be undertaken and a good living may be made in the pure air and sunshine by any industrious man or woman.

Having for many years been lecturer at the Farmers' Institutes in the Extension Courses of the University of California, for four years instructor in poultry husbandry at the poultry school of the University of California, and having been editor or associate editor of four agricultural magazines and several other newspapers on the Pacific Coast, many questions have during this time been propounded to me relating to the poultry business, its difficulties, the troubles of poultry raisers and the ailments of fowls. Some of these questions will be found in this book with the answers to them, also remedies for the diseases or ills of fowls in this climate.

Hoping and feeling sure that my little book, which is the only book dealing with the climatic and other conditions "Out West," may prove a help to all its readers, I am,

Very cordially your friend,

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White Winner

Orpington Hen. at Los Angeles.

Utility Fancy

HI • White Wyandottes

US K1HS White Orpingtons

Eight years of breeding showing, and winning at Los Angeles and other big shows in California prove the high quality of my stock. Careful attention given to the utility qualities and vigor of my birds.

Prices of eggs for hatching :

Utility matings $3.00 per 15 eggs

Special matings 5.00 per 15 eggs

Extra special matings 10.00 per 15 eggs

713 Waterloo St. Los Angeles, Cal.

THE RURAL CALIFORNIAN

A Poultry Magazine

Worthy of the Name.

Valuable to the Fancier

And to the Utility Man.

Up-to-date — interesting —

And decidedly worth while,

Not only to the man with poultry

But to the Stockman, the

Small Farmer,

Fruit and berry raiser,

The maker of the home garden

And the housewife.

It grows in favor with every issue — write for sample copy".

THE RURAL CALIFORNIAN

115 N. Broadway, Los Angeles.

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CAMPINE

Silver and Golden

THE BUSINESS BIRD EVERLASTING LAYERS

THE COMING THE

FOWL ON

PACIFIC COAST STOCK AND EGGS IN SEASON. WRITE WANTS

N. E. LUCE

748 Ottawa Street

Los Angeles

QUALITY

White Plymouth Rocks

A SPECIALTY

The GRANDEST UTILITY and FANCY Breed on record today.

They are the Big Winter Layers, quick growing, and make the finest Broilers of any breed known.

E. S. LAWYER

Yards : Alhambra, Cal.

Office: 519 Germain Bldg.

Los Angeles, Cal.

"Big Ben"

First Cockerel, Watsonville, Cal State Show, Oct. 1911.

L. M. GRIDEFVS

"BIRDLAND"

(Trade-Mark)

Importer and dealer in Song and Fancy Canaries, Talking Parrots, Birds for Aviaries and Collections, Goldfish, Aquaria, Cages, Seeds, Foods, Remedies, etc., of Every description and the Best Only. Ornamental Land Water Fowl, Dogs, Squirrels, Monkeys, Etc.

Come and see them. No admission fee.

130 1-11 Central Avenue. Phone Main 3451.

Our City Store:

216 Mercantile Place.

Tel. Main 2169.

Los Angeles, Cal,

Mrs. A. Basley

Copyright 1912 by Mrs. A. Basley

Table Of Contents

Eggs for Breeding 27

Eggs for Market = 30

Sprouting Oats 34