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BY the time the “beginner” has read this book he might well think himself something more than a beginner. The keynote of the work is sympathy, and once possessing that, it is hard indeed if one cannot make a success of any hobby in live stock. Naturally, the suggestions as to management are more suited to the States than to this country, but the reader who wishes to take a broad view of aviculture, and is already conversant with the ins and outs of the daily routine, will find much food for reflection by a careful study of many of the chapters. We would specially commend to the powers that be section 22 on poultry schools. When one knows of the hard struggle for existence some of our educational work has had, and the scant support our own Board of Agriculture can offer, it makes one feel somewhat envious of the magnificent grants that are so freely available on the other side. The writer of this notice has had the good fortune to take part in some of the courses alluded to, and knows that such experts as are engaged at Cornell and Corvallis, &c., are past masters in the poultry world, and heartily endorses much of what the book says on this question.
The Beginner in Poultry. The Zest and the Profit in Poultry Growing.
C. S. Valentine. Pp. x + 450. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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The Beginner in Poultry The Zest and the Profit in Poultry Growing . Nature 90, 486 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090486a0
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