86 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



I print a few extracts which seem interesting. 

 Thus in his preface he says : " The object of 

 this little work is purely practical ; its aim is 

 to place in the hands of persons who may not 

 have had much experience a book which should 

 contain all that is most essential to be known 

 respecting the housing, feeding, breeding, and 

 treatment of fowls ; and to this has been added 

 such information as the experience of the author 

 has enabled him to give respecting the most 

 profitable varieties viewed as agricultural stock." 

 He then proceeds to say with regard to the 

 diseases of fowls and the remedies suggested as 

 far as the limits of the work would allow : " The 

 brevity of this part the author regrets the less, 

 as he hopes, with the co-operation of some of the 

 leading morbid anatomists of the day, to issue 

 in a short time a distinct work on the diseases 

 of birds ; any information on this subject he 

 would be most happy to receive at all times." 

 Already he had had much experience in the 

 post-mortem examination of fowls, for on page 10 

 he says: "My position in connection with the 

 Cottage Gardener has given me the opportunity 

 of examining more dead and diseased fowls than 

 perhaps ever fell to the lot of one individual : 

 and as the most certain result of my experience 

 I can state that," etc. Further on, he writes: 

 " The plans here recommended / have found 

 to be more than ordinarily successful " — and, 



