author
Harry M. Lamon
b. 1872
A practical early-20th-century poultry expert, this author wrote clear, hands-on guides for farmers and breeders raising chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. His books are straightforward, experience-based, and still interesting as snapshots of American farm life and agricultural know-how.
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Ducks and Geese
by Harry M. Lamon, Rob R. (Rob Roy) Slocum
About the author
Harry M. Lamon, usually listed in library records as Harry Miles Lamon (1872–1942), wrote several well-known poultry and farm guides in the early 1900s. Catalog and archive records connect him with books such as Practical Poultry Production, The Mating and Breeding of Poultry, Poultry Feeds and Feeding, Ducks and Geese, and Goose Raising.
Sources available during this search also describe Lamon and his collaborator Rob R. Slocum as poultry specialists at the Bureau of Animal Industry in the United States Department of Agriculture. That fits the tone of his books: practical, instructional, and aimed at helping readers improve breeding, feeding, and everyday flock management.
Today, Lamon is remembered less as a literary figure than as a useful agricultural writer. His work offers a clear view of how poultry keeping was taught in the United States in the early 20th century, making his books appealing both to historians of farming and to readers curious about older hands-on advice.