Contents: 1. Pleasure and profit of keeping and breeding poultry. 2. the ground suited for poultry rearing. 3. Fowl house shed and yard. 4. Food. 5. The selection of breeds. 6. The different breeds of fowls. 7. Breeding. 8. Eggs and hatching. 9. Rearing chickens. 10. Artificial hatching and rearing by hand, hatching and rearing box foster mother. 11. Management of larger chickens, caponising manure, fattening fowls. 12. The influence of climate on domestic fowls. 13. Diseases of poultry. 14. The fowl tick and tick fever. 15. Ranikhet disease. 16. A portable all purposes unit for the benefit of those who suffer from a surfeit of transfers and moves. 17. Recipes.

There is a growing interest today in Poultry keeping in India. Many are keeping a few good fowls either for pleasure as to provide themselves with eggs and meat. Some are keeping them as profitable cottage industry and others are opening big commercial poultry farms. It is therefore important that, knowledge of how to keep and breed fowls, protect them against disease and cure them when sick should be spread for an wide. This book is a helpful addition in this manner.

The addition of the illustrations makes the book more interesting and attractive as they give the standards up to which all fanciers should endeavor to breed. (jacket)