Excerpt from Methods of Poultry Management at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Many years' practical experience in raising and keeping poultry and investigations in poultry breeding at the Maine Experiment Station have resulted in the accumulation of a considerable fund of information on poultry management. It is the purpose of the following pages to outline this experience for the benefit of poultry keepers and thereby to help them to discriminate between some of the wrong theories which have underlain much of the common practice of the past and the better theories which underlie other and newer methods that are now yielding more satisfactory results. It may be that these methods are no better than those practiced by others, but the attempt is made to state concisely the methods which have been or are now being successfully employed at the Station. Poultry Hygiene and Sanitation. Second in importance only to high constitutional vigor and health in the stock, is attention to the basic rules of hygiene and sanitation in the management of poultry. This section gives an account of the general principles involved in the methods of dealing with these matters practised at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. Attention to the rules and principles here set forth will go a great ways towards preventing the occurrence of disease. This does not mean that if these rules are not followed disease and destruction will forthwith result. Everyone knows of plenty of instances of more or less successful poultry keeping under the most unsanitary and unhygienic of conditions. 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.