INTRODUCTORY 



THE object of this volume is to furnish 

 reliable and practical information on the 

 profitable care and management of poul- 

 try. I have endeavored to take the reader, presum- 

 ably a beginner, into the field of practical poultry 

 work, telling him what to do, and how and when 

 to do it. 



I have catered especially to those who desire to 

 keep only a small flock of fowls for pleasure or 

 profit, but most of the matter contained herein will 

 also apply to poultry keeping on a more extensive 

 scale. 



In order to make this treatise as brief and yet as 

 comprehensive as possible, everything of a theoreti- 

 cal or imaginative nature has been omitted, as well 

 as all unnecessary things. I have made use of only 

 valuable and practical facts, which are the result 

 of my personal experience in the handling of fowls 

 on both a large and a small scale. This is, essen- 

 tially, a business book for busy people. 



R. B. SANDO. 



POTSDAM, OHIO, 1908. 



