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I have purposely omitted any remarks as to 

 CAPOMZING, 



Which, if oven successful, I think most cruel and unnecessary, 

 and only calculated to place diseased fowl on the table j and 

 when attempted to be practised, attended with frequent fraud, 

 as the very operator cannot be sure of his completing the expe- 

 riment, and hence crammed or over-fed fowl are frequently sold 

 as capons, without having the slightest claim to it a circum- 

 stance that cannot be detected, unless by being minutely examined 

 by an experienced anatomist. 



IN CONCLUSION, 



I beg to say, it is now near half a century since the appearance of 

 the first edition of Moubray, on Domestic Fowl, and although since 

 that time, several new varieties have been introduced, they have 

 been, until a very late period, totally unnoticed each succeeding 

 book being nearly a servile copy of its predecessor, and some pro- 

 fessing originality with less than moderate acquaintance with the 

 subject until Richardson, an easy writer, whom I induced to 

 commence the subject, and furnished with materials, and my 

 birds to have - drawings and engravings made, no one treated of 

 the new varieties, and even the old ones were imperfectly de- 

 scribed ; but Mr. Richardson not being a practical man, in the 

 way of fowl, has fallen into many errors, when attempting to 

 describe, without the assistance of others, to remedy which, I have 

 been induced to lay, in the foregoing pages, my practical expe- 

 rience, before an enlightened and discerning public, and hope for 

 their indulgence. 



THE AUTHOR. 



FINIS. 



