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 Frost on Chickens
 About Frost on Chickens The poet Robert Frost lived and worked as a chicken farmer in Derry, New Hampshire from 1900 to 1909. During that period he published a dozen articles for two agricultural trade journals: *The Eastern Poultryman* and *The Farm-Poultry*. The National Agricultural Library (NAL) holds copies of these publications and other relevant materials on poultry farming which give context to Frost's articles. Read more...
 Featured Items Standard-Bred Rhode Island Reds, Rose and Single Comb*Standard-Bred Rhode Island Reds, Rose and Single Comb*


	How to Feed Fowls*How to Feed Fowls*


	Profitable Poultry: Berry’s Golden Rule Poultry Farm*Profitable Poultry: Berry’s Golden Rule Poultry Farm*


	Use of Artificial Light to Increase Winter Egg Production*Use of Artificial Light to Increase Winter Egg Production*

	Twelve Months Work in the Poultry Yard*Twelve Months Work in the Poultry Yard*

	Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved*Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved*

	Poultry Secrets Revealed*Poultry Secrets Revealed*
	
	
	Poultry Houses: Coops & Equipment*Poultry Houses: Coops & Equipment*
	
	Best Methods of Feeding*Best Methods of Feeding*
	
	Eggs and Egg Farms*Eggs and Egg Farms*
	
	The Leghorns: Brown, White, Black, Buff and Duckwing*The Leghorns: Brown, White, Black, Buff and Duckwing*	
	
	Open-Air Poultry Houses For All Climates*Open-Air Poultry Houses For All Climates*
	
	Profitable Poultry Farming*Profitable Poultry Farming*

	The Poultry Keeper*The Poultry Keeper*

	Homemade Poultry Appliances For Poultry Club Members*Homemade Poultry Appliances For Poultry Club Members*
	
	Everybodys Poultry Magazine*Everybodys Poultry Magazine*	

	Poultry Houses and Fixtures*Poultry Houses and Fixtures*
	
	Incubators: Cyphers Brooders, Poultry Houses and Appliances, Poultry Foods, Clover and Alfalfa Products, Insecticides and Remedies*Incubators: Cyphers Brooders, Poultry Houses and Appliances, Poultry Foods, Clover and Alfalfa Products, Insecticides and Remedies*	
	
	Fundamentals in Poultry Breeding*Fundamentals in Poultry Breeding*
	
	The Home Poultry Book*The Home Poultry Book* Featured Exhibit Hen Houses And as for the trap nests if you drop in on us unexpectedly which you are cordially invited to do you can satisfy yourself that they are in operation. And if that is not enough you can have {a transcript} [of] any leaf in our egg record book sworn to before a justice of the peace.-- Robert Frost, personal notebook ... Continue Reading.
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