author
Rob R. (Rob Roy) Slocum
1883–1944
A practical early-20th-century writer on poultry keeping, he produced clear, useful guides for farmers and backyard keepers. His books and bulletins focused on raising, breeding, and marketing chickens, ducks, geese, eggs, and other poultry products.
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Ducks and Geese
by Harry M. Lamon, Rob R. (Rob Roy) Slocum
About the author
Working in the early 1900s, Rob R. Slocum wrote extensively about poultry for U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletins and related farm publications. Surviving catalog records identify him as Rob R. (Rob Roy) Slocum (1883–1944), and many of his works were written to help readers handle everyday problems in poultry care and production.
His publications cover a wide range of practical topics, including capons and caponizing, back-yard poultry keeping, the selection and care of poultry breeding stock, standard varieties of chickens, marketing poultry, and marketing eggs. He also coauthored Ducks and Geese with Harry M. Lamon, showing how broad his work was within poultry husbandry.
What stands out about his writing is its usefulness. Rather than aiming for a literary style, he focused on clear explanations and workable advice for farmers, breeders, and household poultry keepers—making his books a window into the everyday agricultural knowledge of his time.