Cecil Sheppard

Poultry on a Town Lot Cecil Sheppard

This special re-print edition of Cecil Sheppard's book "$4223 from Poultry on a Town Lot" is a guide to raising chickens for profit. Written in 1912, this classic text includes details on how the author made a fine living raising chickens on a small lot in town. Chapters include The Road To Success, Incubators and Brooders, The Care of Chicks, Poultry Houses, Pleasure and Profit, What To Do Each Month, Mating Stock, Origin of the Ancona Chickens and more. Of particular note is a section on the Ancona variety of chickens. 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.