Harry Miles Lamon

Harry Miles Lamon became a leading American poultry specialist whose practical writing translated agricultural research into guidance for farmers and breeders. Ducks and Geese, written with Rob R. Slocum and published by Orange Judd in 1922, covers the selection, breeding, feeding, housing, and marketing of waterfowl. Lamon worked for the United States Department of Agriculture and became senior animal husbandman in poultry investigations. His other publications included federal bulletins on turkey raising, goose raising, incubation, poultry feeds, and the management of farm flocks. Ducks and Geese reflects that professional setting through its systematic organisation and its concern with productive husbandry rather than ornamental description alone. Collaboration with Slocum joined Lamon's broader poultry expertise to a focused account of waterfowl management. His work belongs to an era when agricultural departments, experiment stations, and specialist manuals were bringing research-based methods to a rapidly changing farming economy.