Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Selection of breeds. 3. Importation of eggs. 4. Accommodation: houses. 5. Marking fowls and eggs. 6. Management and feeding. 7. Breeding pens. 8. Setting and hatching. 9. Coops, artificial mothers, food and rearing. 10. Preparing for show. 11. Fattening, killing and plucking. 12. Cooking. 13. Enemies of the poultry yard. 14. Diseases. 15. Description of various breeds. Index.

"Though the number of persons who keep poultry is increasing and the knowledge of how to manage poultry is being diffused through the poultry press, the demand for eggs and dead fowls increases in still greater degree.

The selection, rearing and general treatments in poultry science was felt as the need of hour for farmers. Poultry science has to be studied in all its details, it has been dealt with thoroughly." (jacket)