CHAPTER III 



POULTRY KEEPING FOR UTILITY AND EGG 

 PRODUCTION 



THE subject of poultry keeping from every 

 point of view has been so thoroughly dealt 

 with in books and magazines by experts, that 

 it would seem unwise and unnecessary to treat 

 it in a technical way in this short chapter. 

 I propose, therefore, to give in more or 

 less detail a practical experience in poultry 

 keeping, which has come very nearly under 

 my own observation, and which strikes me as 

 being one of such ordinary occurrence that 

 the relating of it may be a help to " those 

 who are about to start " for themselves. 



By way of general remark, however, I TWO views 



r of poultry 



would say that the ideas ot the every-day keeping 

 public on poultry may be roughly classified 



