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MR. SWEPSTONE has written a book on laying batteries which should be of great value to the large number of beginners who are interested in this latest system of commercial egg production. The battery system is equally suitable for the domestic poultry-keeper with half-a-dozen birds, the commercial poultry-keeper and the general farmer, so that this useful little book should have a very wide reading public. The author has had twenty years experience of poultry-keeping, and after trying several methods he states that the best of all is the single hen laying battery. In fact, he would rather give up than attempt commercial egg production on any other lines. Surely this is ample testimony of the efficiency of this system.
Eggs from Every Cage
Describing Laying Battery Management. By H. E. Swepstone. Pp. 83. (Worcester : Littlebury and Co., Ltd., n.d.) 7s. 6d. net.
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WHITTLE, T. Eggs from Every Cage. Nature 162, 475 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162475b0
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