Excerpt from A Revolution in Egg Production It is the author's intention, in this work, not only to supply detail knowledge of how to care for poultry, but also to offer the reader something on the order of a post-graduate study. Details will be gone into because they play a part, and have a bearing, on the new viewpoints presented. "Coming events cast their shadows before them," and the observant poultryman can often visualize conditions in such a manner as to sense the necessity of changing diet, or surroundings, before the cause of such a necessity has worked to his detriment. Heredity and environment are two big factors in egg production; but environment has, in the author's opinion, fully as much influence on production as heredity. A third factor exists, which heretofore has not been recognized as essential, which is under our control, this factor being the length of the hen's business day. The wild jungle fowl, through changed conditions, and the accumulation of the results of these conditions as transmitted by heredity, has been bred and fed to lay a greatly increased average number of eggs annually; and in the same manner, and for the same reasons, we can, by providing still better environments, further materially increase production - thereby adding to the pleasure and profit of poultry keeping as a business proposition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.