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represent. New breeds have been introduced, and the 

 standards of many older breeds have become seriously different 

 from what they were; a vast amount of additional experience 

 on many points has been accumulated ; and therefore the 

 Twentieth has seemed to both the Author and the Publishers a 

 good opportunity for the preparation and issue of what 

 almost amounts to a New Edition. 



No change has been made for the mere sake of change ; 

 and the first few pages, and many other pages, will be found 

 elsewhere pretty much in the old familiar form. But whole 

 chapters have been added, and other whole chapters practically 

 re-written, on farm and table poultry, artificial incubation, and 

 the descriptions of the various breeds of fowls. In all these, 

 and in other points, the text has been brought up to the 

 knowledge and progress of the present day, the old stereotype 

 plates being entirely cancelled. Coloured plates representing 

 the principal breeds, from the pencil of Mr. J. W. Ludlow, 

 have also been substituted for the earlier illustrations. 



THE PRACTICAL POULTRY KEEPER thus presents itself in 

 its Twentieth Edition in what is practicably a new dress. The 

 Author trusts it will be found " practical " as ever, while as 

 Bound and trustworthy as many years of additional experience 

 can make it; and so commits it again to a public, not a 

 few of whom have become almost personal friends. 



August, 1885. 



