Egg Money

This special re-print edition of H. A. Nourse's book "Egg Money" offers particular insights into the raising of chickens for eggs, for home use or for profit. Written in 1908, by one of the great poultry authorities of the turn of the century, this informative text explains how one goes about not only raising chickens for eggs, but also how one can get the most production out of a flock of laying hens, be it for eggs for the family table or to supplement one's income year round. Chapters include The Equipment Required, Selecting Breeding Stock, Hatching and Rearing Chicks, Rearing Heavy Layers, Care of Future Layers, Houses For Laying Hens, Feeding Laying Hens, Feeding for Winter Eggs, Filling the Egg Basket, The Trap Nest, Preserving Eggs, Marketing Eggs and much more. Filled with hundreds of practical old fashioned tips about keeping laying hens and lavishly illustrated with vintage photographs. 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.