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IN actual money value, the products of poultry rais- 

 ing, including eggs, surpasses that of many ambitious 

 industries and is surpassed by few, if any, in the world, 

 be they" agricultural or manufacturing. Notwithstand- 

 ing the great aggregate value of poultry, but little at- 

 tention has been paid to the medical treatment of the 

 ills of fowls, which are many, and what little they have 

 received has too often been of such a nature that they 

 would have been better without it. This, however, is 

 not surprising, for as long as men are ignorant of, or 

 deny the truth of, homoeopathy, the great and only law 

 of cure, so long will they be incapable of formulating 

 any system of medicine applicable to all diseases, 

 whether of man, beast or fowl. Homoeopathy offers to 

 poultry raisers a system of medicine for their fowls 

 which is exceedingly efficacious, involves little labor 

 and trifling expense. That system will be found de- 

 tailed in this book. What imperfections may be found, 

 must not be charged to homoeopathy, but to imperfect 



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