ADVERTISEMENTS. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, 



Practical Poultry Breeder and Feeder ; or, How to make Poultry Pay 

 (by William Cook). The idea of likening poultry into machines for 

 converting waste and worthless matter into very good and profitable 

 delicacies, is a happy one, and the author explains it very thoroughly. 

 With little labour and attention, fowls may be kept so as to yield 

 a good return ; but there are conditions which must be observed, and 

 these are simply and plainly laid down by the author, who is the 

 most careful instructor we have met with for a very long time. 

 Daily Chronicle, October 10, 1882. 



Mr. Cook in his useful little book How to make Poultry Pay, 

 remarks that the number of eggs annually imported by the country 

 is about 750 millions, worth say 2,400,000. As is generally known, 

 the majority of these eggs come over from France, where they are 

 produced by cottagers and farmers, nearly all of whom keep fowls 

 and make them pay well. Mr. Cook thinks if our cottagers and 

 farmers would only devote themselves to a little practical study of 

 fowls and their rearing, at least half this sum of money could be 

 kept in this country. A friend who followed Mr. Cook's sensible 

 advice, was able to increase his store of eggs from four hundred to 

 nearly eight hundred, without, at the same, adding to the number of 

 his fowls. Society, February 3, 1883. 



How to make Poultry Pay (by William Cook). Mr. Cook points 

 out so many facts concerning the numerous errors universally made, 

 either through ignorance or prejudice about poultry, its rearing and 

 breeding, that the little manual deserves to be widely dispersed. It 

 has often been said that the English working classes might be much 

 better off than they are if they only knew how to take advantage of 

 things, as do the French, who in reality are exceedingly poor; but at 

 the same time very frugal, and admirable in their perfect knowledge 

 of domestic economy, often knowing how to live comfortably on what 

 their English fellow labourers throw away. Mr. Cook's book, 

 however, has a wider scope than that of teaching poor people how to 

 keep poultry. It addresses itself equally to the rich, and so practical 

 are the contents, that one gentleman by following them, managed to 

 increase his store of eggs in one year from 1,800 to 2,300, and yet he 

 did not add to the number of his birds. He simply punctually 

 obeyed Mr. Cook's rules for dieting his poultry, and the result was 

 such as to greatly surprise and delight him. The Mornimj Post. 



Poultry breeders should welcome the appearance of a new 

 edition of Mr. William Cook's Practical Poultry Breeder and Feeder 

 (E. W. Allen, Ave Maria Lane), as the many valuable directions on 

 management, feeding, &c., contained in the work, cannot fail to 

 prove serviceable to all who keep fowls, whether for pleasure or 

 profit. Graphic. 



Poultry Breeder and Feeder. Published by the author, William 

 Cook, at the Queen's Head Yard, 105, Borough, London, S.E. Those 

 who had the pleasure of perusing Mr. Cook's valuable work when it 

 made its appearance a few years ago, will not be surprised to learn 

 that it has run into the fifth edition. But though the present issue 



