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INTRODUCTION 



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In the hope of helping beginners and others of my friends in the poultry 

 business, and in response to urgent requests for a book on poultry culture from 

 my pen, I wrote a small volume a year ago. The whole edition was sold in 

 a year, and on account of the interest taken in it and the demand for some- 

 thing more, I have re-written it and added chapters on breeding in line, fireless 

 brooders and other new features in the poultry business. 



The book is a synopsis of many chapters of my "Woman's Work in the 

 Poultry Yard" and other talks on poultry, and embodies the personal, practical 

 experiences I have been through myself in many years of pleasant work in 

 the poultry yard. Its object is not necessarily to urge anyone into the business, 

 but to encourage and help beginners and especially newcomers on the Pacific 

 Coast, where conditions differ materially from those in the East and where 

 there is an increasingly large demand for both poultry and eggs; where the 

 poultry business is about as profitable as any that ca.n be undertaken and a 

 good living may be made in the pure air and sunshine by any industrious man 

 or woman. 



Having for many years been lecturer at the Farmers' Institutes in the 

 Extension Courses of the University of California, for two years instructor in 

 poultry husbandry at the poultry school of the University of California, and 

 having been editor or associate editor of four agricultural and other news- 

 papers on the Pacific Coast, many questions have during this time been pro- 

 pounded to me relating to the poultry business, its difficulties, the troubles 

 of poultry raisers and the ailments of fowls. Some of these questions will be 

 found in this book with the answers to them, also remedies for the diseases or 

 ills of fowls in this climate. 



Hoping and feeling sure that my little book may prove a help to all its 

 readers, I am, 



Very cordially your friend. 



