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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...
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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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