Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1918 — POULTRY KEEPING IN BACK YARDS [ARTICLE]

POULTRY KEEPING IN BACK YARDS

Poultry keeping, although ’a' comparatively simple undertaking, will be successful in direct proportion to the study and labor which are expended upon It There is an abundance of good material on the subject but Backyard Poultry Keeping (Farmers’ Bulletin 889), a publication of the United States department of agriculture, contains all the general directions needed to make a start. It tells how to overcome the objections to keeping poultry In the city, what kinds of fowls to keep, the size of the flock computed according to the size of the back yard, gives definite instructions as to the best kinds of chicken houses to build, with bill of materials for same, directions as to feeding the fowls, hatching and raising chicks, prevention of diseases and many other matters essential to the success of the undertaking. Another helpful bulletin of a general character is Hints to Poultry Raisers (Farmers’ Bulletin 528). This gives a great deal of useful and authoritative information within a very small compass.