PART II, 



SOME PRACTICAL HINTS. 



THERE are a good many books on the general man- 

 agement of poultry. All of them contain some good 

 matter and, also, much that is impractical and even 

 useless, or worse. The most of them seem to take it for 

 granted that every poultry raiser can devote a great 

 deal of his time to the care of his fowls. They seem to 

 be constantly addressing men who make poultry raising 

 their sole business-, whereas the number who do so com- 

 pared with those to whom it is merely an incidental 

 part of farm life, are as one to many thousands. It is 

 to the larger class that this book is addressed, and our 

 aim is to give here only such hints as may be easily 

 acted upon. Those who follow poultry raising as a 

 business, perhaps know more on the subject of the care 

 of fowls than the book writers do, but many of them 

 have much to learn in the treatment of the diseases of 

 poultry. 



