PREFACE 



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This book is not an accident; it is born of a desire to help others 

 to avoid the stumbling blocks in the poultry business and at the request 

 of many readers of The Pacific Rural Press, and other papers. 



With forty-five years of experience with poultry it is to be expected 

 that I have .learned a few things about it; it's a poor business that does 

 not teach lessons in that length of time. Don't you think so? 



There are books, yes, books without number, on poultry matters, 

 but many of them are mostly theory. This book tells you just what 

 I have done and how I would do it. 



It is a book of action, and it is action that counts these days. We 

 have to act in the living present if we want to live. I want to live 

 and I want others to live, too, and as I have learned these things by 

 experience it is fitting that I should tell others how to obtain results 

 without paying such a big price for the experience. 



The things told ytou in this book are original, unorthodox, but 

 strictly practical; and if you will read and then heed, you will be well 

 satisfied that the author has given you your money's worth. California 

 is an Empire in itself, and I am sure there are enough men and women 

 engaged in the poultry business, or wanting to get into it to call for a 

 million copies of this book, though its only claim is that it is needed. 



Yours for better and more poultry, 



SUSAN SWAYSGOOD. 



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