Chickens and How to Raise Them

This special re-print edition of A.T. Johnson's book "Chickens and How To Raise Them" is a complete guide to raising chickens. Written in 1920, this classic text on poultry contains all basics about raising chickens for eggs, meat or pleasure. Chapters include Notes on Chickens From Nature, The Structure of The Egg, Eggs For Hatching, Natural Incubation: The Sitting Hen, Artificial Incubation of Eggs With An Incubator, Rearing Chicks With a Hen, The Artificial Rearing of Chicks, Rearing Chicks in the Winter, Poultry Ailments, Preserving Eggs and more. A truly enlightening and educational read on chickens. 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.