PREFACE 
O doubt the experts whose eyes chance to 
N fall on this book will say that it is ele- 
mentary. It is, and purposely so. It is 
designed first and last for the amateur who has no 
time or inclination to read technical and semi-tech- 
nical books on poultry keeping. It aims to tell the 
man with a few hens what to do and how to do it. 
There are certain statements with which some poul- 
try keepers will disagree. We may look for the 
millennium when the men who keep hens come to 
be of one mind as to the management of them. 
However, no pet theory has been put forward or 
new system advocated. What has been written is 
based largely on personal experience and what has 
been learned in visits to many poultry plants, large 
and small, in different parts of the country. It is 
sent out with the hope that some amateurs may find 
in it a suggestion or two which will help them to 
get more eggs with less expense and have more fun 
doing it. 
